Tag: Experiments
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FCC Physics, Experiments and Detectors: from Strategy Update to Project Preparation
From detector concepts to future experiment collaborations, the FCC Physics, Experiments and Detectors programme is entering a new phase. Patrick Janot outlines how the Reference Design Phase will bring together physics ambitions, detector R&D and international collaboration to prepare FCC-ee for project approval and delivery.
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FCC Week 2026: from scientific ambition to an integrated design
FCC Week 2026: from scientific ambition to an integrated design by Panos Charitos (CERN) This year’s annual conference brought together 656 participants in Helsinki to examine how the Future Circular Collider study can move from feasibility demonstration towards a coherent reference design. With its primary focus on FCC-ee, the meeting presented a project in which
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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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From Run 3 to the next generation: following the transformation of the LHC experiments
From dismantling detector components to installing new technologies, the transition from Run 3 to the next generation of LHC experiments is a major scientific and engineering undertaking. We follow the teams behind this transformation, exploring the challenges inside the experimental caverns and the expertise across CERN’s EP Department that helps turn ambitious upgrade plans into…
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CERN STEAM Academy puts the future of scientific software centre stage
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup returned to CERN for a packed STEAM Academy seminar on the future of scientific software. From safer programming and simpler code to new language features and the demands of long-lived research infrastructure, he explored how C++ can continue to evolve alongside the computing challenges of modern science.
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From beam dumps to missing energy: the SPS search for hidden particles
For more than four decades, CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron has served as a testing ground for new ways to search for particles that interact only feebly with ordinary matter. In a recent lecture, NA64 co-spokesperson Paolo Crivelli traced the evolution of this programme – from the first beam-dump experiments to missing-energy and missing-momentum searches, precision…
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Key4hep: A software framework for future collider studies
Key4hep brings future-collider communities together around a shared software framework for detector design and physics studies. By integrating tools for event generation, simulation, reconstruction and analysis, it reduces duplication, facilitates comparisons and allows each project to adapt the software to its own detector and scientific goals.
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Bundling Forces for Future Online Computing: Introducing the CDO Projec
Discover the Control Acquisition and Online Computing (CDO) Project, an initiative of the Experimental Physics Department that brings together diverse expertise, ideas and perspectives to strengthen collaboration across the community.
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Rucio crosses the exabyte horizon
Rucio crosses the exabyte horizon When we last wrote in these pages about Rucio, ATLAS had just passed the half-exabyte mark and the community counted around thirty organisations. Six years on, a threshold that was then a distant projection has been crossed: both ATLAS and CMS, the two largest LHC experiments, now each manage more