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Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee, former spokespersons of ATLAS and CMS, will be presented with the 2017 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize
The awards recognise excellent contributions made to the ATLAS collaboration, with an emphasis on activities carried out in the first year of Run 2
The n_TOF collaboration has added an important piece to the puzzle of the cosmological lithium problem
See the images from the celebration to mark the end of phase 1 of HIE-ISOLDE
New results presented by the LHCb collaboration on the decay of particles containing a “charm” quark delve deeper into the matter-antimatter asymmetry
This week, the LHC will ignore its motto of ‘maximum luminosity’, and perform special runs at very low luminosity
A special proton-proton run with larger beam sizes at the interaction point is intended to probe the p-p elastic scattering regime at small angles
Young Scientist Prize, granted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics awarded to researchers for work at CERN’s ISOLDE
On 15 September 2016, the LHCb collaboration awarded the first set of prizes for outstanding contributions of early-career scientists.
Installation of the second cryomodule at HIE-ISOLDE means unique, upgraded machine is now ready to take physics measurements at higher energies
The MoEDAL experiment published new data today, closing gap on where to search for the elusive magnetic monopole particle
The ATLAS experiment at CERN released data from 100 trillion proton-proton collisions in the LHC in 2012