Read article 'Black holes and qubits'
Black holes and qubits
Michael Duff explains how string theory and M-theory could have practical applications in quantum information theory.
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Read article 'The LHC’s new frontier'
The LHC’s new frontier
A look at events on the day of the first 7 TeV collisions.
Read article 'CERN and JINR sign new agreement'
CERN and JINR sign new agreement
CERN and JINR have a long and successful history of collaboration – the first informal meeting on international co-operation in the field of high-energy accelerators took place a...
Read article 'Romania takes first steps to join CERN'
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 'Lepton Photon goes back to its roots in Hamburg'
Lepton Photon goes back to its roots in Hamburg
The biennial conference provided its usual comprehensive review of particle physics.
Read article 'Perspectives on LHC Physics'
Perspectives on LHC Physics
Ben Allanach reviews in 2010 Perspectives on LHC Physics.
Read article 'The LHC is back: four remarkable weeks'
The LHC is back: four remarkable weeks
The moment that particle physicists – and many others – around the world had been waiting for finally arrived on 20 November 2009. Bunches of protons circulated once again rou...
Read article 'UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays'
UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays
The recent success comes just one year after the facility first achieved energy recovery.
Read article 'Protons are back in the LHC'
Protons are back in the LHC
During the last weekend of October, particles once again entered the LHC after the one-year interruption following the incident of September 2008, travelling through one sector in ...
Read article 'First ions for ALICE and rings for LHCb'
First ions for ALICE and rings for LHCb
Injection tests on 25–29 September delivered heavy ions for the first time to the threshold of the LHC. Particles were extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and tran...