First proposed in 2012, the Circular Electron Positron Collider in China is soon to enter an engineering design phase.
Weaving through the molasse and limestone beneath Lake Geneva and around Mont Salève, the Future Circular Collider would constitute a major global civil-engineering project in its own right.
A new analysis by LHCb of the open-charm hadrons in Λb decays was presented at the International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon
Embedded in 3 km-thick ice, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole needs permanent human company to keep it operational. Recent IceCube “winterover” Marc Jacquart...
A workshop on sustainability for future accelerators took place on 25–27 September in Morioka, Japan.
The directors of KEK, CERN, Fermilab and IHEP discussed a future global strategy at the 13th ICFA seminar.
A major upgrade to the AMS-02 tracking system planned for 2026 will bring key information relating to a mysterious excess of cosmic rays at high energies.
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The platform technologies that underpin Europe’s large-scale research facilities
The “asymptotic safety” approach towards quantum gravity opens new avenues at the intersection between particle physics and gravity.
How the CERN EN-MME-MM section deals with the complex demands for mechanical design, production facilities and material science at CERN and beyond.
In March, CERN selected a new experiment called SHiP to search for hidden particles using high-intensity proton beams from the SPS.
A new five-year-long project aims to accelerate novel computing, engineering and scientific ideas for the ATLAS and CMS upgrades.
In March the CERN Council launched the process for updating the European strategy for particle physics.
The US Department of Energy has approved “Critical Decision 3A” for the future Brookhaven-based collider.
The largest charm-threshold data set ever collected is also vital for studies with charm and beauty mesons at LHCb and Belle II.
The LHC’s dedicated heavy-ion experiment is to be equipped with an upgraded inner tracker and a new forward calorimeter during the next long shutdown.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has catalogued millions of objects in its bid to study the evolution of the universe.
New EPS president Mairi Sakellariadou on how to support curiosity-driven research.
CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański is one of 17 astronauts selected by ESA from among more than 22,000 applicants.
John Ellis pays tribute to an iconic figure in modern science.