Read article 'Poland marks 30 years at CERN'
Poland marks 30 years at CERN
Three decades since the Polish flag was hoisted at the entrance to CERN, Tadeusz Lesiak recollects the genesis of Poland’s membership and reflects on its impact.
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Read article 'State-of-the-art tracking for high luminosities'
State-of-the-art tracking for high luminosities
The tracking systems of the ATLAS, LHCb and CMS experiments are undergoing complete replacements to prepare for the extreme operating conditions of future LHC runs.
Read article 'CERN’s impact on medical technology'
CERN’s impact on medical technology
Frontier instruments like the LHC and its detectors not only push back the boundaries of our knowledge, but also catalyse innovative technology for medical applications, writes Manuela Cirilli.
Read article 'ALICE tracks new territory'
ALICE tracks new territory
The recently installed, upgraded ALICE inner tracking system is the largest pixel detector ever built and the first at the LHC to use monolithic active pixel sensors.
Read article 'ESCAPE towards open virtual research'
ESCAPE towards open virtual research
Launched in February 2019, the European Union project ESCAPE is making strides towards an open scientific analysis infrastructure for particle physics and astronomy.
Read article 'Physics flies high at SINP'
Physics flies high at SINP
Eduard Boos and Victor Savrin look back at 75 years of developments at Russia’s Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Read article 'Intercepting the beams'
Intercepting the beams
Marco Calviani describes major upgrades to the beam-intercepting devices that lie at the heart of CERN’s accelerator complex.
Read article 'Going with the flow'
Going with the flow
The ALICE experiment is making strides towards understanding how charm and beauty quarks flow within cooling droplets of quark–gluon plasma at the LHC, shedding light on the extreme conditions of th...
Read article 'An anomalous moment for the muon'
An anomalous moment for the muon
To confidently discover new physics in the muon g−2 anomaly requires that data-driven and lattice-QCD calculations of the Standard-Model value agree, write Thomas Blum, Luchang Jin and Christoph Leh...
Read article 'In search of WISPs'
In search of WISPs
Experiments such as MADMAX, IAXO and ALPS II are expanding the search for axions and other weakly interacting ‘slim’ particles that could hail from far above the TeV scale.
