Tag: precision measurements
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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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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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New Staff Members and Fellows – Autumn 2026
New Staff Members and Fellows – Autumn 2026 Christian Appelt Hello, I’m Christian. I’ve joined EP-ATL-SO as a Research Fellow. I completed professional training as an electronics technician, worked in industry for 5 years, and studied electrical engineering (BEng) and physics (BSc, MSc, PhD). I’ve worked at several research institutes; in ATLAS, I’ve been involved in and am leading long-lived particle searches, the production
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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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BASE experiment scientist recognised with UPAP Early Career Scientist for coherent antiproton spin spectroscopy
BASE experiment scientist recognised with UPAP Early Career Scientist for coherent antiproton spin spectroscopy Dr Barbara Maria Latacz, CERN scientist and lead author of the BASE study, works on the trap electronics used to control single antiprotons for high-precision antimatter measurements. Barbara Latacz, CERN research scientist and technical coordinator of the BASE experiment, has received
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LHCb completes a long-awaited family of doubly charmed baryons
LHCb completes a long-awaited family of doubly charmed baryons More than sixty years ago, particle physics was facing a problem of abundance. New subatomic particles were appearing in experiments, but there was not yet a clear organising principle to explain their relationships. In the early 1960s, Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne’eman independently proposed the “Eightfold
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New Staff Members and Fellows
New Staff Members and Fellows Maximilian Babeluk Hi, I’m Max. I recently joined the ALICE ITS3 team, where I work on sensor testing, functional verification, and in the future also chip design – particularly on MOSAIX. My main activities include testing and yield assessment across multiple integration levels (wafer probing to system tests), including data
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Moving antimatter beyond the lab
Moving antimatter beyond the lab For decades, antimatter experiments have been bound to a single place: the laboratory in which the particles are produced and trapped. At CERN’s Antimatter Factory, antiprotons are routinely produced, decelerated and confined in Penning traps, where electric and magnetic fields are used to store charged particles for high-precision studies. Yet
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A mobile antiproton reservoir for precision measurements
A mobile antiproton reservoir for precision measurements The BASE collaboration has performed the most precise measurements of the fundamental properties of the antiproton in order to test CPT invariance as fundamental symmetry of the Standard Model [1, 2] and to search for dark matter-antimatter couplings [3]. The course of continuing this journey is set towards