Read article 'Bunch trains lead towards target luminosity'
Three weeks of intense machine development on the LHC came to a satisfying conclusion on the night of 21 September with the final validation of the machine-protection systems for ...
Read article 'Georges Charpak – a true man of science'
Ioannis Giomataris pays tribute to the Nobel-prize winning physicist.
Read article 'ATLAS observes striking imbalance of jet energies in heavy ion collisions'
The ATLAS experiment has made the first observation of an unexpectedly large imbalance of energy in pairs of jets created in lead-ion collisions at the LHC.
Read article 'Computing conference goes to Taipei'
The first experience with data from the LHC beats out the rhythm for CHEP 2010.
Read article 'A sparkling tale of spin-off'
How research on diamond detectors led to a hi-tech company in Austria.
Read article 'High-energy interactions in the Alps'
The LHC experiments star at a major winter conference.
Read article 'A bumper year nears its end'
For the second year running, the LHC team has largely surpassed its operational objectives, steadily increasing the rate at which the LHC has delivered data to the experiments.
Read article 'Romania takes first steps to join CERN'
On 11 February the Romanian minister of education, research, youth and sport, Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, signed an agreement that formally re...
Read article '100 years of cosmic rays'
This issue of the CERN Courier marks the discovery of cosmic rays.
Read article 'Marking the end of the first proton run'
At 6 a.m. on 17 December, operators ended the LHC’s first three-year-long run for proton physics with a new performance milestone. In the preceding days, the space between prot...
