The BSM-2025 Conference, organized by the UK-based journal Progress in High Energy Physics (PHEP), in collaboration with Sabancı Üniversitesi, follows the successful precedents of BSM-2023 and ...

The International Symposium on Physics in Collision is a prestigious conference series that was first held in 1981 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. The symposium primarily features review talks that ...

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.

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 ...

Gargantua A variant of the black-hole accretion disk seen in the film Interstellar. Credit: DNEG/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./CQG 32 065001 Oliver James is chief scientist of the world’s biggest ...

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 ...

Threading the needle The LHCb experiment at CERN sparked a renaissance in charm physics with two intriguing measurements that challenge theorists to improve the precision of their predictions. Credit: ...

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 ...

Brand new ALICE 3 is built around a high-resolution tracker with a specialised vertex detector within the beam pipe, housed in a superconducting solenoidal magnet and complemented by several detectors ...

The past seven decades have seen remarkable cultural and technological changes. And CERN has been no passive observer. From modelling European cooperation in the aftermath of World War II to ...