In the May 1966 issue of CERN Courier, A J Herz (Nuclear Physics Division) and W O Lock (Personnel Division) described the development of nuclear-emulsion detectors, highlighting a CERN experiment ...

Link to the future Tests at CERN of a full-scale 120 kA MgB 2-based superconducting link “Demo 3”, colloquially known as the “python”, for the High-Luminosity LHC.Credit: CERN. T he era of ...

In a 2021 analysis of the same B + → J/ ψφ K + decay mode including LHC Run 2 data, LHCb reported two more neutral states, χ c1 (4685) and X(4630), that do not correspond to cc states expected from ...

Gargantua A variant of the black-hole accretion disk seen in the film Interstellar. Credit: DNEG/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./CQG 32 065001 Oliver James is chief scientist of the world’s biggest ...

How did winning a Special Breakthrough Prize last year compare with the Nobel Prize? Deep mind Steven Weinberg is director of the theory research group, University of Texas at Austin. Credit: M ...

Progressions of power Rendering of the new purpose-built facility (above and left from Fermilab’s Wilson Hall) that will host the 215 m-long PIP-II superconducting linac, the new heart of the Fermilab ...

Clocking gravity Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars (spinning neutron stars that emit radio waves) being affected by a gravitational wave produced by a supermassive black-hole binary in a ...

Misfits Massive neutrinos are not part of the Standard Model. Credit: Symmetry After all these years, neutrinos remain extraordinary – and somewhat deceptive. The experimental success of the ...

Accelerating into the future Seventy years after construction began on CERN’s still-operational Proton Synchrotron (above, left), a new generation of researchers is being called upon to help conceive ...

Knowledge transfer at CERN. Tangible benefits GEMPix detectors are being evaluated for use in quality assurance in hadron therapy. Credit: CERN. As a publicly funded laboratory, CERN has a remit, in ...

Heavy breakthroughs. Double hidden charm A T c c c c (6600) candidate decays to a pair of J/ψ, which in turn decay into two pairs of muons (blue and red trajectories) in the CMS detector at CERN.

With just 5% of its ultimate dataset collected so far, the LHC’s vast and unique physics programme has already transformed and enriched our understanding of elementary particles, writes Michelangelo ...