Former LHC project leader looks back at his developing project and ahead towards the future
The LHC has been shut down for consolidation since the beginning of 2013. This break is called Long Shutdown 1 or LS1. One of the biggest jobs has been the opening and inspection of all the 1695 magnet-magnet interconnects. They had to be carefully checked and sometimes repaired to make sure that they can take […]
Over the past decades, colliders have defined the energy frontier in particle physics. Both electron-positron, proton-(anti)proton as well as electron-proton colliders have played complementary roles in fully mapping out the constituents and forces in the Standard Model (SM). We are now at a point where all predicted SM constituents have been found at colliders. Currently […]
One hundred metres under Swiss roads and fields, Yoshitaka Sakurada, Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, was pleased to discover the Japanese flag proudly displayed on an inner triplet magnet, one of the Japanese contributions to the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN. Guided in the LHC by former […]
I got up at 2am in the morning to watch the announcement of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. During an unexpected delay by one hour, thoughts started to wander whether the recipients might also be totally unexpected. But it was worth the wait. The announcement confirmed what we’ve been waiting for: recognition of François Englert […]
CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large […]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments […]
Every few years, CERN opens its doors to the general public. The last “Open Days” took place in 2008 before the LHC startup. The present long shutdown of the CERN facilities provides an ideal opportunity to continue this tradition, which is essential in establishing trust in the local communities as well as giving the public […]
The LC13 Wokshop: “Exploring QCD from the infrared regime to heavy flavour scales at B-factories, the LHC and a Linear Collider” will take place in Trento, Italy from 16 to 20 September 2013. LC13 agenda and registration pages are now online. Registration will end on 30 August 2013. For more information, contact Giulia Pancheri.
For the realisation of a linear collider, a significant contribution from the United States is essential. A critical step is that the project is positively included in the US strategy for high-energy physics. The formation of the US strategy is currently in progress through a multi-step process. First, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) […]