We are thrilled to host the 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics in the vibrant city of Marseille, France. This exciting event will take place at the iconic Palais du Pharo ...

LHC physics Effective field theory enables a deeper understanding of complex physics processes at the LHC, such as the above production of Higgs bosons in ATLAS. Credit: ATLAS-CONF-2022-032.

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 ...

Clocking gravity Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars (spinning neutron stars that emit radio waves) being affected by a gravitational wave produced by a supermassive black-hole binary in a ...

In a 2021 analysis of the same B + → J/ ψφ K + decay mode including LHC Run 2 data, LHCb reported two more neutral states, χ c1 (4685) and X(4630), that do not correspond to cc states expected from ...

Gargantua A variant of the black-hole accretion disk seen in the film Interstellar. Credit: DNEG/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./CQG 32 065001 Oliver James is chief scientist of the world’s biggest ...

Brand new ALICE 3 is built around a high-resolution tracker with a specialised vertex detector within the beam pipe, housed in a superconducting solenoidal magnet and complemented by several detectors ...

Testing CP symmetry. The three neutrino mass eigenstates mix to make electron, muon and tau neutrinos according to the Pontecorvo– Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata (PMNS) matrix, which describes three rotations ...

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 ...

With just 5% of its ultimate dataset collected so far, the LHC’s vast and unique physics programme has already transformed and enriched our understanding of elementary particles, writes Michelangelo ...

Shining light Licia Verde is ICREA professor at the Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos, University of Barcelona. Credit: F Camallonga Did you always want to be a cosmologist? One day, around the time I ...

Rising to the moment . Freewheelin’ Artist’s illustration of muons interacting with a magnetic field. Credit: M. Rayner / CERN. In the Standard Model, the magnetic moment of the muon is computed order ...