Mark Thomson is professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge and was executive chair of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) until his confirmation as ...
Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further fundamental exploration and innovation in space technologies. Sky map The ...
Testing, one, two, three The High-Luminosity LHC test stand in November 2024. Credit: CERN The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, edited by Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi, is a comprehensive ...
Experimental particle physicist Ian Shipsey, a remarkable leader and individual, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Oxford on 7 October. Ian was educated at Queen Mary University of London and ...
Transportable antimatter trap The BASE-STEP experiment is on track to transport antiprotons to Germany next year. Credit: CERN-PHOTO-202410-259-53 Thirty years ago, physicists from Harvard University ...
The CLOUD experiment CERN’s Proton Synchrotron mimics the effect of cosmic rays on atmospheric gases. Credit: M Brice/CERN-PHOTO-202204-064-2 In a paper published in the journal Nature, the CLOUD ...
Max Klein worked across theory, detectors, accelerators and data analysis. Credit: M D’Onofrio Experimental particle physicist Max Klein, whose exceptional career spanned theory, detectors, ...
Demonstrably cool Participants of the 2024 Muon Cooling Demonstrator Workshop at Fermilab. Credit: Fermilab More than 100 accelerator scientists, engineers and particle physicists gathered in person ...
Flying high China’s permanently crewed space station, Tiangong, which can be translated as “sky palace”, orbits at an altitude of 340 to 450 km and was completed in 2022 following its precursors ...
Cold non-baryonic dark matter appears to make up 85% of the matter and 25% of the energy in our universe. However, we don’t yet know what it is. As the opening of many research proposals state, “The ...
A report from the ATLAS experiment. Fig. 1. Simulated monopole pair-production signature for PbPb ultraperipheral collisions in the ATLAS pixel detector. Credit: ATLAS Collab./CERN Magnetic monopoles ...