The 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference IPAC is the premier annual gathering for the global accelerator community, bringing together scientists, engineers, and industry professionals ...

André de Gouvêa explains why neutrino masses imply the existence of new fundamental fields. Misfits Massive neutrinos are not part of the Standard Model. Credit: Symmetry After all these years, ...

What a proton is depends on how you look at it, or rather on how hard you hit it. A century after Rutherford’s discovery, our picture of this ubiquitous particle is coming into focus, says Amanda ...

Steven Weinberg talks to CERN Courier about his seminal 1967 work and discusses where next for particle physics following the discovery of the Higgs boson. Steven Weinberg photographed at the ...

With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ‘muon g-2’ – one of particle physics’ most precisely known quantities and ...

Gianluigi Arduini, Philip Burrows and Jacqueline Keintzel report on the findings of a working group mandated to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider. The view from Le Reculet ...

Commercial software can’t keep pace with experimental precision when it comes to large-scale computer-algebra calculations in quantum field theory. Maintained by a single theorist for decades, FORM is ...

Nuria Catalan Lasheras and Igor Syratchev explain why klystrons are strategically important to the future of the field – and how CERN plans to boost their efficiency above 90%. Generating power ...

Oliver James of DNEG, which produced the striking black hole in the film Interstellar, describes the science behind visual effects and the challenges in this fast-growing industry. Gargantua A variant ...

CERN’s Molflow software has become the de-facto industry standard for ultra-high- vacuum simulations. Roberto Kersevan and Marton Ady describe how it is now enabling space research and other branches ...

There are many different ways to explain the cosmic matter–antimatter asymmetry, says Géraldine Servant, but the Higgs boson plays a key role in essentially all of them. Bubble nucleation Simulation ...

Frontier instruments like the LHC and its detectors not only push back the boundaries of our knowledge, but also catalyse innovative technology for medical applications, writes Manuela Cirilli.