Tag: cosmology
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In discussion with Alan Guth
Alan Guth reflects on the origins of inflationary cosmology, the uncertainty surrounding its earliest models and the observations that could shape its future. He also discusses eternal inflation, the measure problem and the enduring connections between cosmology and particle physics.
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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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One summer, a world of possibilities: CERN’s Summer Student Programme 2026
More than 320 students from over 90 nationalities spent the summer at CERN, contributing to research, exploring new ideas and building friendships. As the 2026 Summer Student Programme concludes, discover the people, projects and experiences behind an unforgettable summer of science.
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In discussion with John Ellis: The Higgs, Patience and Perseverance in Science
In discussion with John Ellis: The Higgs, Patience and Perseverance in Science by Panos Charitos For John Ellis, the history of the Higgs boson is not a neat, short story that begins with a theory paper and ends with a discovery announcement. It is a long intellectual adventure, beginning in superconductivity, moving through the construction
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Deciphering the Electro-Weak Phase Transition at Current and Future Colliders
Deciphering the Electro-Weak Phase Transition at Current and Future Colliders Over the past century, a whole zoo of particles has been discovered and their interactions have been investigated. This led to a puzzling mystery; on the one hand we discovered a property of Nature, known as electro-weak symmetry, which gave a unified explanation of radioactive
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Interview with Andrei Linde
Interview with Andrei Linde Andrei Linde is Harold Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University and one of the most influential cosmologists of our time. Linde is one of the authors of the inflationary universe scenario, which is gradually becoming the standard paradigm of modern cosmology, replacing the previous versions of the big bang
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Interview with James Peebles
Interview with James Peebles An interview with Jim Peebles, one of the world’s foremost cosmologists and an emeritus professor at Princeton University, where since 1984 he was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science. Together with Robert Dicke (who was originally his supervisor) and others they predicted the existence of the cosmic background radiation while his
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Neutrino properties from cosmology
Neutrino properties from cosmology Cosmology has entered the precision era: we now have a standard model for cosmology where the content, history and evolution of the Universe are described by few parameters. These parameters are constrained by observations at the percent level or better. As for particle physics and the search for beyond the standard