Category: Physics
-
The March/April 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out
A hadron collider’s energy reach is defined by the circumference of its tunnel and the strength of its dipole magnets. Next-generation hadron colliders look set to have tunnels more than three times longer than the LHC. Further expansion of the energy frontier depends on the ability of accelerator physicists to increase the strength of the
-
NA62 Collaboration refines measurement of rare particle decay
Study of the one-in-ten-billion kaon decay allows researchers to stress-test the Standard Model of particle physics
-
Machine learning to reveal more about LHC particle collisions
The CMS Collaboration demonstrates that machine learning can outperform traditional methods in the full reconstruction of particle collisions at the LHC
-
Antonino Zichichi (1929 – 2026)
A pioneer of CERN’s experimental programme in the 1950s, he was one of the most influential figures in high-energy physics
-
What can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons?
The latest edition of the CERN Courier magazine explores what the High-Luminosity LHC will be able to say about the distant past and future of the Universe
-
The January/February 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out
Physicists can be allies, wrote Wassily Kandinsky, “who test matter again and again, who tremble before no problem, and who finally cast doubt on that very matter which was yesterday the foundation of everything, so that the whole universe is shaken.” This edition of CERN Courier offers two examples of physics to shake the universe.
-
ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival
Observations of the formation of light nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter
-
Deciphering the heavyweights of the tetraquark world
The CMS collaboration reports the first measurement of the quantum properties of a family of tetraquarks that was recently discovered at the LHC
-
First observation of single top quark production with W and Z bosons
This incredibly rare phenomenon, observed at the CMS experiment, can help probe the fundamental forces of nature
-
Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements
A sophisticated electrostatic trap at CERN’s ISOLDE facility could help researchers probe the chemical reactivity of the rarest and least understood elements