Tag: BSM
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A word from the EP Department Head – Autumn 2026
Dear Colleagues, Autumn is transforming nature by giving it new colours, shortening daylight and changing the temperature. Similarly, the start of Long Shutdown 3 has transformed our experimental facilities into busy construction sites. The excitement of data taking has given way to eager teams of technicians, engineers and scientists dismantling, cleaning and refurbishing the areas…
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Past and Present of the LHC Physics Programme: A Viewpoint
Before the LHC began operations, expectations were immense. It was not perceived simply as CERN’s next machine after LEP, but as “the next machine after everything”—a collider expected to settle how electroweak symmetry is broken.
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Designing for the unusual: LLP2026 and the lifetime frontier
LLP2026 brought around 80 theorists and experimentalists to Cambridge at a moment of transition for the lifetime frontier. From new searches using Run 3 LHC data and unconventional signatures to prototype detectors and new experimental concepts, the workshop showed how long-recognised blind spots are being turned into concrete experimental capabilities.
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ATLAS presents a strategy for a general search of new physics
ATLAS presents a strategy for a general search of new physics One of the main goals of the Large Hadron Collider is to look for signals beyond the Standard Model (the other major goal has already been fulfilled with the discovery of the Higgs boson). To this day scientists are still lacking clues. Could it