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 […]
BlogLine – 26 May
23 May 2011 Frank Simon Derailed Schedules
Space shuttle Endeavour launches
Brian Foster awarded Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Brian Foster awarded Alexander von Humboldt Professorship On 12 May in Berlin, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presented one of eight Humboldt Professorships, the highest valued international awards for research in Germany, to Brian Foster. Beginning 1 June, Foster, the GDE Regional Director of Europe, will begin work at the research centre DESY and at […]
BlogLine – 19 May
11 May 2011 Frank Simon Talking Calorimeters – Day Trip to CERN 28 April 2011 Frank Simon Beam time is around the corner – again!
News from KEK: Damage caused by the recent earthquake and recovery prospects
Reports on the main damage and the recovery plan at KEK after Japan's major earthquake of 11 March and its consequences ever since
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Former President of India gives talk at Fermilab
Online resources on superconductivity
Learn all about superconductivity and its applications with these helpful online resources. Celebrating 100 years of Superconductivity To celebrate 100 years of superconductivity, IOP Publishing has made 100 articles available free to read for the duration of 2011 La supraconductivité dans tous ses états Un site interactif sur la supraconductivité Superconductivity in all its forms […]
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
Superconductivity in the media
All over the world news outlets reflect on the remarkable achievements made possible by the discovery of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on 8 April 1911. from BBC 18 April 2011 Superconductors got hot 25 years ago Superconductivity is a hundred years old this month, and a way to make it accessible turned 25 this week. But […]