Matthew Chalmers

Matthew is the editor of the CERN Courier. He joined CERN in May 2016.

33 results

CERN and the US sign joint statement of intent

Joint Statement of Intent between the US and CERN concerns future planning for large research infrastructures, advanced scientific computing and open science

News
At CERN
24 May, 2024

50 years of giant electroweak discoveries

On 19 July 1973, the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN revealed the existence of weak neutral currents and put the nascent Standard Model of particle physics on solid ground

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Physics
19 July, 2023

Where does the Higgs boson come from?

The observed mass of the Higgs boson is, from the theoretical point of view, unnaturally small. This conundrum is forcing physicists to explore exotic explanations.

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Physics
30 March, 2023
Physics
News
30 March, 2023

CERN congratulates winners of 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger share the award for conducting experiments that laid the foundations for advanced quantum technologies

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Knowledge sharing
04 October, 2022
Knowledge sharing
News
04 October, 2022

Higgs10: Three-quarters of the way there

The direct discovery of the W and Z bosons at the SppS in 1983 provided solid experimental support for the existence of the Higgs boson

Feature
Physics
25 May, 2022
Physics
Feature
25 May, 2022

Higgs10: A boson is born

The Higgs boson holds the record (48 years) among elementary particles for the time between prediction and discovery, going from an esoteric technicality to commanding the global spotlight at the world’s most powerful collider

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Physics
28 April, 2022
Physics
Feature
28 April, 2022

The March/April issue of the CERN Courier is out

Announcement
At CERN
09 March, 2022
At CERN
Announcement
09 March, 2022

Connecting the smallest and largest scales

The first edition of the EuCAPT annual symposium on 5-7 May saw hundreds of physicists discuss the latest opportunities and challenges in theoretical astroparticle physics and cosmology

News
Physics
10 May, 2021

AEgIS on track to test free fall of antimatter

New technique for producing antihydrogen atoms is important milestone for measuring influence of gravity on antimatter

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Experiments
11 February, 2021
Experiments
News
11 February, 2021

CERN meets quantum technology

The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative will explore the potential of devices harnessing perplexing quantum phenomena such as entanglement to enrich and expand its challenging research programme

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Computing
30 September, 2020
Computing
News
30 September, 2020

CERN’s neutrino success story

The CERN Neutrino Platform has proved a major success in enabling European participation in long-baseline neutrino projects in the US and Japan

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Physics
04 August, 2020
Physics
News
04 August, 2020

Particle physicists formulate future of the field

This week’s drafting session marks key discussions for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

News
Knowledge sharing
20 January, 2020
Knowledge sharing
News
20 January, 2020