The BSM-2025 Conference, organized by the UK-based journal Progress in High Energy Physics (PHEP), in collaboration with Sabancı Üniversitesi, follows the successful precedents of BSM-2023 and ...

The International Symposium on Physics in Collision is a prestigious conference series that was first held in 1981 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. The symposium primarily features review talks that ...

Pixel detectors have their roots in photography. Up until 50 years ago, every camera contained a roll of film on which images were photochemically recorded with each exposure, after which the ...

Structural integrity The new Super Proton Synchrotron internal beam dump being installed inside its shielding in October 2020. Credit: J Ordan/CERN-PHOTO-202010-134-24 Imagine standing in the LHC ...

What’s in a name? Reflecting their mystery, the first exotic states were named X, Y and Z. Later on, the proliferation of exotic states required an extension of the particle naming scheme. Manifestly ...

Disentanglement A Jackson Pollock- inspired artwork makes one want to discover whether the pattern is random, created by a computer, or contains evidence of something new. Credit: iStock/susaro The ...

In the summer of 1968, while a visitor in CERN’s theory division, Gabriele Veneziano wrote a paper titled “Construction of a crossing-symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly-rising ...

Nuclear landscape Chart of nuclides plotted with atomic number (Z) versus neutron number (N), with stable species indicated by black squares. The colours correspond to the decay half-life, T, which ...

Masterful The young Cabibbo lecturing at about the time he proposed his angle. Credit: Family photograph In a 1961 book, Richard Feynman describes the great satisfaction he and Murray Gell-Mann felt ...

How did winning a Special Breakthrough Prize last year compare with the Nobel Prize? Deep mind Steven Weinberg is director of the theory research group, University of Texas at Austin. Credit: M ...

The past seven decades have seen remarkable cultural and technological changes. And CERN has been no passive observer. From modelling European cooperation in the aftermath of World War II to ...

Photo of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector, which is filled with liquid argon and located in SNOLAB’s underground laboratory. Credit: G Kingsley Ernest Rutherford’s pioneering work on radioactive ...