Category: Experiments
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LHCb announces its 2025 collaboration prizes
Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the LHCb Thesis Awards, Early Career Scientist Awards and Technical Awards
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Antiprotons to test the Standard Model
The PAX experiment, the first user of the antimatter factory’s new test beamline, is studying quantum electrodynamics using atoms containing an antiproton
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Alasdair Smith (1942–2025)
Alasdair Smith(1942–2025) — Alasdair Smith passed away in March at the age of 82. After receiving a PhD in physics from the University of Glasgow in 1970, Alasdair began a long career at CERN, working on experiments at the ISR, then on OPAL at LEP and, finally, on LHCb at the LHC. At the ISR,
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AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution
The AEgIS collaboration, led by a team from the Technical University of Munich, has repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of imaging antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution
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ATLAS celebrates its 2024 thesis award winners
Every year, these awards celebrate the outstanding achievements made by PhD students working with the collaboration
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Steering ATLAS forward with new management
Spokesperson Stéphane Willocq and Deputy Spokespersons Anna Sfyrla and Guillaume Unal will lead the collaboration for the next two years
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Senamile Masango (1987–2025)
Senamile Masango(1987–2025) — It is with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of Senamile Masango, a member of the CERN Alumni Network. A pioneering South African nuclear scientist, entrepreneur and advocate for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, she dedicated her life to advancing science and empowering women in STEM. As
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Paul Kuijer (1957–2025)
Paul Kuijer(1957–2025) — We received news of the passing of Paul Kuijer with great sorrow. Paul was a senior experimental physicist at Nikhef and played an important role in the ALICE experiment at CERN. During the last years of his career, Paul had turned his attention mostly towards the ET Pathfinder project within the Gravitational
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Optical fibre link to make CERN more on time than ever
A new optical fibre link between CERN and Paris will provide the Laboratory with an accurate frequency reference, enhancing precision and supporting experiments like ALPHA in their search for matter–antimatter differences
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CMS develops new AI algorithm to detect anomalies
During LHC Run 3, researchers at the experiment have deployed an innovative machine learning technique that will improve the data quality of one of the detector’s most crucial components