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 ...

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 SPS control room in 1977. Ted Wilson and Rae Stiening are at the desk, with its touch screens; Bent Stumpe and George Shering stand behind. “The proton synchrotron currently being built by CERN ...

In the May 1966 issue of CERN Courier, A J Herz (Nuclear Physics Division) and W O Lock (Personnel Division) described the development of nuclear-emulsion detectors, highlighting a CERN experiment ...

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 ...

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 ...

Threading the needle The LHCb experiment at CERN sparked a renaissance in charm physics with two intriguing measurements that challenge theorists to improve the precision of their predictions. Credit: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ANTARES legacy Stepping stone A prototype of the KM3NeT DOM was tested on an ANTARES line in 2013 and recovered in June 2022. Credit: ANTARES Collaboration Building a telescope anchored deep at ...

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 ...

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