A curious physicist with detector expertise: Dieter Renker 1944–2019
Dieter was a curious physicist with an exceptional talent for novel detector concepts.
A talent and a love for physics: Olga Borisovna Igonkina 1973–2019
She was working on preparations for an RK measurement until her very last days.
The difficult work begins
The open symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics revealed a vibrant field in flux as it grapples with the next big questions.
A flair for the fundamental: Hans-Jürg Gerber 1929–2018
Gerber initiated basic research at SIN and later at PSI with his precision experiments on the decay of charged muons – experiments that continue to this day.
A giant of mathematics: Michael Atiyah 1929–2019
A giant of mathematics whose work influenced theoretical high-energy physics.
Dream machine
Muon colliders are both precision and discovery machines, but significant R&D is required before they can be considered candidates for a next collider.
Energy efficiency – a new frontier
Major savings in the energy consumption and cost of accelerators are there for the taking, with potential impact beyond particle physics.
Addressing the outstanding questions
At the European Strategy for Particle Physics, talks covered key questions in the field, and the accelerator, detector and computing technologies necessary to tackle them.
Pushing the limits on supersymmetry
Despite the theory’s many appealing features, searches for SUSY at the LHC and elsewhere have so far yielded only exclusion limits.
Boosting searches for fourth-generation quarks
If the new "T" quarks exist, they are expected to decay to a quark and a W, Z or Higgs boson.
