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.

Deep learning is bringing new levels of performance to the analysis of growing datasets in high-energy physics.

The ALICE collaboration is charting a course to an exciting heavy-ion physics programme for Runs 5 and 6 at the High-Luminosity LHC.

Marek Karliner and Jonathan Rosner ask what makes tetraquarks and pentaquarks tick, revealing them to be at times exotic compact states, at times hadronic molecules and at times both – with much still ...

Patrick Koppenburg and Marco Pappagallo survey the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far. Twenty-three exotic states Five pentaquarks and 18 tetraquarks have been discovered so far at the LHC ...

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, ...

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 ...

An electron–positron Higgs factory following the LHC would significantly expand our knowledge about this unique and mysterious elementary scalar.

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 ...

The proton spin crisis Illuminating The 12 GeV CEBAF accelerator at Jefferson Lab may shed light on the source of the proton’s missing spin. Credit: DOE’s Jefferson Lab. Among many misconceptions in ...

Marco Calviani describes major upgrades to the beam-intercepting devices that lie at the heart of CERN’s accelerator complex.

Rolf Widerøe operates one of his betatrons in 1953. Credit: Av Verdens Gang/NTB Scanpix The betatron is an early type of MeV-range electron accelerator which uses the electric field induced by a ...