Read article 'Machine learning and the search for the unknown'
The CMS collaboration is employing neural networks to conduct model-independent searches for short-lived particles that could escape conventional analyses.
Read article 'Standardising sustainability: step one'
The Laboratory Directors Group has published guidance on evaluating the carbon impact of accelerator projects.
Read article 'John Peoples 1933–2025'
John Peoples, the third director of Fermilab, who guided the lab through one of the most critical periods in its history, passed away on 25 June 2025.
Read article 'Ole Hansen 1934–2025'
Ole Hansen, a leading Danish nuclear-reaction physicist, passed away on 11 May 2025.
Read article 'Michele Arneodo 1959–2025'
Michele Arneodo, professor of physics at the University of Piemonte Orientale and chairperson elect of the CMS Collaboration Board, passed away on 12 August 2025.
Read article 'Miro Preger 1946–2025'
Miro Andrea Preger, a distinguished accelerator physicist in the Accelerator Division of the Frascati National Laboratories, passed away on 1 September 2025.
Read article 'CEPC matures, but approval is on hold'
The Circular Electron–Positron Collider (CEPC), a 100-km electron–positron “Higgs factory” proposed in China, has reached the technical-design stage but will not be included for approval or co...
Read article 'Mixed signals from X17'
A decade after the initial report of the ATOMKI anomaly, MEG II and PADME present conflicting findings on the proposed X17 boson.
Read article 'ATLAS confirms top–antitop excess'
The ATLAS collaboration has confirmed the threshold excess in top–antitop production first reported by CMS, consistent with the formation of toponium.
Read article 'US publishes 40-year vision for particle physics'
In June, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published an unprecedented 40-year strategy for US particle physics.
