Category: Experiments
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ATLAS 2025 Thesis Awards spotlight the “soul” of the Collaboration
On 19 February 2026, the ATLAS Collaboration gathered for the 2025 Thesis Awards – an annual celebration of the vital role of PhD students within the experiment
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CMS welcomes new management for 2026–2028
With more than 6000 scientists, engineers, technicians, administrators and students, CMS is one of the world’s largest scientific collaborations. From 1 January 2026 to 31 August 2028, Anadi Canepa has the important role of representing the Collaboration as its Spokesperson. Joining her as deputies are Hafeez Hoorani, who continues in his present role until 31
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Groundbreaking CMS calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC
CMS has recently completed the first prototype slice of its innovative High-Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL), which will be the largest silicon-based detector ever built
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ALICE welcomes its new management
From 1 January 2026 onward, Kai Schweda has assumed the role of ALICE spokesperson, alongside Andrea Dainese and Anthony Robert Timmins, new deputy spokespersons of the collaboration
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Breakthrough in antimatter production
A new cooling technique means that the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory can produce antihydrogen atoms eight times faster than before
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Barbara Latacz awarded 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize
The CERN scientist has been recognised for her work on the development of quantum-limited measurement technologies to determine the antiproton magnetic moment with at least 100-fold improved accuracy
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CMS congratulates its 2024 Thesis Award and 2025 Young Researcher Prize winners
2024 CMS PhD Thesis Award During the September 2025 CMS week, the CMS collaboration announced the winners of the 2024 CMS PhD Thesis Award. After a rigorous evaluation of a remarkable pool of 19 nominees, the collaboration honoured Congqiao Li (Peking University, CN), Christina Wenlu Wang (California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US) and Ho Fung
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Which bin should I use for my unwanted cast-iron blocks?
Got any blocks of cast iron lying around in a corner of your office? They might be useful for the future Beam Dump Facility (BDF) for the SPS
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Preserving particle physics data
A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future physicists is crucial
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Michele Arneodo (1959–2025)
Michele Arneodo(1959–2025) — Michele Arneodo, professor of physics at the University of Piemonte Orientale and Chair elect of the CMS Collaboration Board, passed away on 12 August 2025 at the age of 65. Born in Turin in 1959, Michele graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Turin in 1982. He was awarded