The International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) is the flagship event in the field of particle physics, organized under the auspices of the C11 commission of the International Union of ...

Xsuite drew CERN's fragmented beam-simulation tools into a single framework, used to operate existing colliders, design future ones and model medical accelerators.

A bound galaxy protocluster with hot, X-ray-emitting gas has been found just one billion years after the Big Bang.

CMS has searched for the rare decay of the W boson into three light charged hadrons, setting the most stringent limit yet on its branching fraction.

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 ...

Michèle Levi takes a tour through the past, present and future of Effective Field Theory, with applications ranging from LHC physics to cosmology. LHC physics Effective field theory enables a deeper ...

Louis Lyons traces the origins of the “five sigma” criterion in particle physics, and asks whether it remains a relevant marker for claiming the discovery of new physics. Disentanglement A Jackson ...

The development at CERN of magnesium diboride cables and other advanced superconducting systems for the High-Luminosity LHC is also driving applications beyond fundamental research, describes Amalia ...

Detectors similar to those used to hunt for sterile neutrinos could help guard against the extraction of plutonium-239 for nuclear weapons, writes Patrick Huber. Technology demonstration Technicians ...

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 ...

Peter Thirolf, Benedict Seiferle and Lars von der Wense describe how recent progress in understanding thorium’s nuclear structure, and new upcoming results, could enable an ultra-accurate nuclear ...

Mature design The CEPC Study Group has published a technical design report for its reference detector. Credit: CEPC Study Group 2025 arXiv:2510.05260 In October, the Circular Electron–Positron ...