Read article 'PHYSTAT-LHC combines statistics and discovery'
With the LHC due to start running next year, the PHYSTAT-LHC workshop on Statistical Issues for LHC Physics provided a timely opportunity to discuss the statistical techniques to b...
Read article 'Strangeness, charm and beauty come to Slovakia'
SQM 2007 meeting hears of new results and expectations for the LHC.
Read article 'The LHC: a new high energy photon collider'
A look at the LHC's potential for photon-induced interactions.
Read article 'Vertex 2007 prepares for the radiation challenge'
A workshop at Lake Placid focused on developments in vertex detectors.
Read article 'The high-energy frontier (archive)'
The principal goal of the experimental programme at the LHC is to make the first direct exploration of a completely new region of energies and distances, to the tera-electron-volt ...
Read article 'Teams mark final fitting of warm magnets'
The LHC is well known for its hundreds of superconducting magnet assemblies, but it will also use 154 normally conducting "warm" magnets.
Read article 'Control systems for big physics reach maturity'
The 11th ICALEPCS conference looked at projects around the world.
Read article 'Trieste workshop puts a RICH variety on show'
Ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters provide a unique tool to identify charged particles by measuring their velocity, even when it differs from the velocity of light by only one ...
Read article 'The Large Hadron Collider runs on woman power'
In particle physics, as in much of the rest of physics and engineering, the practitioners are generally men. However, women do become involved and some even break through to import...
Read article 'Impressions of the LHC 2008 open days'
Photographs from the day that the world came to CERN.
