Category: Experiments
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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
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
The CMS collaboration presents its 2023 awards for outstanding contributions to three doctoral students and 50 collaboration members
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Upgrading the LHCb sub-detectors for the HL-LHC
The LHCb experiment is revamping its electromagnetic calorimeter with new high-performance modules and equipping its ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors with very fast electronics
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NA64 uses the high-energy SPS muon beam to search for dark matter
The NA64 collaboration has used a muon beam for the first time to search for dark matter and could set new limits for a potential dark Z’ boson
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Hunting for millicharged particles at the LHC
The FASER and FORMOSA collaborations team up to test a demonstrator experiment to detect particles with a tiny electrical charge
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MADMAX at the forefront of the search for axions
The MADMAX experiment at CERN’s North Area probes dark matter candidates with two new prototypes
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ALICE gets the green light for new subdetectors
CERN’s dedicated heavy-ion physics experiment, ALICE, is upgrading its Inner Tracking System and adding a forward calorimeter for the next phase of the LHC upgrade
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SHiP sets sail to explore the hidden sector
The experiment is designed to detect very feebly interacting particles, including candidate dark-matter particles
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CMS releases Higgs boson discovery data to the public
The collaboration has also made publicly available the software that it developed to search for the unique particle