Pixel detectors have their roots in photography. Up until 50 years ago, every camera contained a roll of film on which images were photochemically recorded with each exposure, after which the ...

New era CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings in 1974. Credit: CERN-PHOTO-7408061 The ability to collide high-energy beams of hadrons under controlled conditions transformed the field of particle physics.

Structural integrity The new Super Proton Synchrotron internal beam dump being installed inside its shielding in October 2020. Credit: J Ordan/CERN-PHOTO-202010-134-24 Imagine standing in the LHC ...

What’s in a name? Reflecting their mystery, the first exotic states were named X, Y and Z. Later on, the proliferation of exotic states required an extension of the particle naming scheme. Manifestly ...

Photo of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector, which is filled with liquid argon and located in SNOLAB’s underground laboratory. Credit: G Kingsley Ernest Rutherford’s pioneering work on radioactive ...

Disentanglement A Jackson Pollock- inspired artwork makes one want to discover whether the pattern is random, created by a computer, or contains evidence of something new. Credit: iStock/susaro The ...

In the summer of 1968, while a visitor in CERN’s theory division, Gabriele Veneziano wrote a paper titled “Construction of a crossing-symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly-rising ...

Masterful The young Cabibbo lecturing at about the time he proposed his angle. Credit: Family photograph In a 1961 book, Richard Feynman describes the great satisfaction he and Murray Gell-Mann felt ...

How did winning a Special Breakthrough Prize last year compare with the Nobel Prize? Deep mind Steven Weinberg is director of the theory research group, University of Texas at Austin. Credit: M ...

Technology transfer CERN FLASH study-leader Walter Wuensch in CERN’s high-accelerating gradient test area with CLIC accelerating structures, specially adapted versions of which will drive a ...

LHC physics Effective field theory enables a deeper understanding of complex physics processes at the LHC, such as the above production of Higgs bosons in ATLAS. Credit: ATLAS-CONF-2022-032 ...

Rising to the moment Freewheelin’ Artist’s illustration of muons interacting with a magnetic field. Credit: M. Rayner / CERN In the Standard Model, the magnetic moment of the muon is computed order-by ...