Today I announce the release of a comprehensive report on the ILC R&D programme and progress. The ILC R&D programme is oriented at establishing the technical viability of the design that will be presented in our Technical Design Report (TDR). This report describes our considerable progress to date on R&D and demonstration experiments that will […]
From symmetry breaking: Higgs buzz at summer physics conference
From CERN Bulletin: In conversation with Nobel Laureate Jack Steinberger
Interim report on the ILC R&D programme
From CERN Bulletin: Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider – How are discoveries made?
With the LHC up and running, some might imagine physicists just waiting for a Higgs boson to pop up in one of the four experiments, before publishing a paper and moving on to solve science’s next Big Mystery. However this picture is very far from the reality of experimental particle physics today, where results are […]
LHC superconducting magnets
CERN’s video on superconducting magnets takes you from the pure physics of superconductivity to its application in particle colliders. See the Meissner effect in action and learn about how superconducting magnets were designed and installed in the Large Hadron Collider. View the video
from CERN: LHC sets world record beam intensity
Geneva, 22 April 2011. Around midnight this night CERN’s Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 × 1032 cm-2s-1. This exceeds the previous world record of 4.024 × 1032 cm-2s-1, which was set by the US Fermi National […]
A laboratory without walls
Fourth workshop of the France-China Particle Physics Laboratory held in Jinan
The 4th Workshop of the France-China Particle Physics Laboratory (FCPPL) took place in Shandong University, Jinan, China from 7 to 9 April 2011. The main purpose of these workshops is to present, review and discuss the various ongoing and future activities performed by Chinese and French scientists within the FCPPL framework. More than 100 scientists, […]
A day in a particle physicist’s shoes
March is particle hunting season for more than 8,000 students who participated in the International Hands on Particle Physics Masterclasses. As the Large Hadron Collider is about to again start colliding protons, 130 universities and laboratories in 24 research institutes around the world open their doors and invite high school students to become particle physicists […]