Category: Experiments

  • Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins

    Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins

    For the next 17 days, every minute counts when it comes to taking lead–lead collision data

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  • Charting the future of neutrino experiments

    Different projects for next-generation neutrino experiments are under way at CERN to help to shed light on the nature of these elusive particles

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  • BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter

    BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter

    The experiment successfully transported a box filled with unbonded protons across CERN’s main site, thus demonstrating that the same feat could later be possible for antiprotons

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  • Detector now collecting data in Japan after upgrade at CERN

    Detector now collecting data in Japan after upgrade at CERN

    Japan’s neutrino facility T2K is now collecting data using a detector that was upgraded and tested at CERN

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  • CMS welcomes its new management

    CMS welcomes its new management

    The new spokesperson, Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, and the two deputy spokespersons, Hafeez Hoorani and Anadi Canepa, will be representing CMS over the next two years

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  • LHCb announces its 2024 collaboration prizes

    LHCb announces its 2024 collaboration prizes

    Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the LHCb Thesis Awards, Early Career Scientist Awards and Technical Awards

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  • ALICE honours its 2024 Thesis Award winners

    ALICE honours its 2024 Thesis Award winners

    On 9 July 2024, the ALICE collaboration honoured its PhD Thesis Award winners in a ceremony organised as part of the ALICE collaboration meeting at CERN. Since 2008, ALICE has recognised the most outstanding PhD theses in the fields of physics and instrumentation, based on the excellence of the results obtained, the quality of the

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  • Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

    Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

    The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties

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  • ATLAS announces its 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award winners

    ATLAS announces its 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award winners

    The ATLAS collaboration held its seventh biennial Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony on 20 June 2024. These awards recognise the invaluable technical work performed across the collaboration in various fields. This year, the Awards Committee honoured two individuals and seven groups for their exceptional contributions to detector operation, detector upgrades, software, computing and teamwork during the

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  • CMS congratulates its 2023 Award and Thesis Award winners

    CMS congratulates its 2023 Award and Thesis Award winners

    The CMS collaboration presents its 2023 awards for outstanding contributions to three doctoral students and 50 collaboration members

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