AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm
AI enhances Higgs boson’s charmThe Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such...
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The May/June 2025 issue of the CERN Courier is out
The May/June 2025 issue of the CERN Courier is out (Image: CERN Courier)Should a Higgs factory be a linear or circular electron–positron collider? Intriguingly, the key strategic technology may be the...
View ArticleEarly-career researcher input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Early-career researcher input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics Thanks to the involvement of many early-career researchers (ECRs) over the past few months, the organisers of the ECR white...
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ALICE eyes the cosmos
ALICE eyes the cosmosCosmic rays are high-energy particles from outer space that strike Earth’s atmosphere, generating showers of secondary particles, such as muons, that can reach the planet’s...
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LHCb weighs up the Z
LHCb weighs up the Z The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to Physical Review Letters, the LHCb collaboration reports...
View ArticleElusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC
Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC An unforeseen feature in proton-proton collisions previously observed by the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has now been...
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The July/August 2025 issue of the CERN Courier is out
The July/August 2025 issue of the CERN Courier is out (Image: CERN Courier)One hundred years ago, Werner Heisenberg retreated to the island of Helgoland, where he built the foundations of the first...
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A century of quantum mechanics
A century of quantum mechanicsJust 100 years ago, on 9 July 1925, Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to his friend, colleague and fiercest critic, Wolfgang Pauli. A few weeks earlier, Heisenberg had...
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ATLAS closes in on rare Higgs decays
ATLAS closes in on rare Higgs decaysStudies of the properties of the Higgs boson featured prominently in the programme of the major annual physics conference, the 2025 European Physical Society...
View ArticleA quantum leap for antimatter measurements
A quantum leap for antimatter measurementsIn a breakthrough for antimatter research, the BASE collaboration at CERN has kept an antiproton – the antimatter counterpart of a proton – oscillating...
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