July 2025 - September 2025

Marek Gazdzicki: Four Decades at the SPS – and Still Surprised by Strong Interactions

After nearly two decades at the helm of NA61/SHINE, Marek Gazdzicki reflects in this interview on a lifetime at the SPS — from proposing the world’s first two-dimensional scan of nuclear collisions to the unexpected discovery of a large isospin…

Special light-ion LHC runs

The LHC carried out a special run programme early summer. First results were reported by the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments at the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions conference. These results were also presented at a…

CMS explores light-ion collisions: suppression, scaling, and collectivity

The CMS experiment has reported first results from the LHC’s dedicated oxygen–oxygen (O–O) and neon–neon (Ne–Ne) collision run, offering an unprecedented look at quark–gluon plasma (QGP) formation in light-ion systems. These studies address long-…

Light ions at the LHC: first results from oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions

This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) delivered its first-ever collisions between light ions, opening a new chapter in the study of nuclear structure and the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) – the extreme state of matter that existed in the first…

EDIT Instrumentation Schools: Preparing the Next Generation of Detector Experts

The Excellence in Detector and Instrumentation Technologies (EDIT) Schools are an established series of international training events dedicated to young researchers – graduate students and early-career postdocs – who want to deepen their knowledge…

Aerogel RICH detector for the future ALICE 3 PID system at LHC

For the LHC Runs 5, starting in 2036, the ALICE collaboration is proposing a new apparatus, ALICE 3 (CDS record), to further investigate the properties of Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) following the physics measurement campaign of LHC Runs…

G4HepEm: accelerated electromagnetic shower simulation for the HL–LHC

When the High–Luminosity LHC (HL–LHC) starts delivering data, the volume of simulated events required to control systematic uncertainties will rise sharply. In ATLAS, detailed detector simulation already consumes a large fraction of the computing…

ISOLDE charts the shores of the islands of inversion

For decades, CERN’s ISOLDE (Isotope Separator On-Line Device) facility has been a global leader in exploring the behaviour of exotic nuclei far from stability. By delivering beams of short-lived isotopes and enabling their study with advanced…

Breakthrough: Coherent Spectroscopy with a Single Antiproton Spin

BASE physicist Barbara Latacz in front of the experiment’s cryostat. This cylinder, which is kept at 4 kelvins (-269°C), houses the system of traps that cool and measure the antiprotons and a very strong magnet. (Image: CERN) In a significant…

Welcome to the Collider Neutrino Era!

Searches for new fundamental particles and interactions at hadron collider experiments such as the SPS, the TeVatron, and the LHC have traditionally focused on heavy and relatively strongly interacting states. The two general-purpose experiments of…

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