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03/14/18

Global Physics Photowalk 2018

Eighteen physics facilities will give photographers a behind-the-scenes look at science.

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Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino

10/29/24

Chris Patrick

Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.

08/01/06

When the CERN safety team and I heard the loud rumbling 25 meters underground, we weren't concerned. With no warning, it would have been frightening, but the rush of water through pipes overhead presaged a thrilling event.

08/01/06

CERN cafeteria

Walk into the main CERN cafeteria at various times of the day and you'll find different scenes: scientists discussing results over coffee; a parent coaxing his children to finish lunch before swooping them back to the nursery school on site; groups of grad students soaking up the sun on the

08/01/06

Introducing the Large Hadron Collider

Our understanding of the universe is about to change.

08/01/06

From swords to plowshares

Despite struggling through economic failure during the 1990s, Russia's devotion to scientific collaboration in high-energy physics has grown stronger.

08/01/06

Into a new world of physics and symmetry

The worldwide particle physics community is about to sail on a voyage into a New World of discovery. The Large Hadron Collider, a multi-billion-dollar particle collider that will begin operations in Europe in 2007, will take us into new realms of energy, space, time, and symmetry.

08/01/06

Magnet Jessica

What do an 18-month-old baby and a 19-foot-long superconducting magnet have in common?

08/01/06

Extracting physics from the LHC

A proton travels around a 27-kilometer ring at nearly the speed of light. Along with a bunch of other protons, it passes through the hearts of each of a series of detectors more than ten thousand times per second. Then, on one pass, it slams into a proton coming from the other direction.

08/01/06

LHC papers

The Large Hadron Collider, to start up in late 2007, traces its inception back to 1979. There are already more than 4000 papers in the SPIRES database that are about the LHC, either mentioning its name in the title or referring to it in a significant way.

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