Tending to a giant September 25, 2023 | Sarah Charley In a race against the clock, CERN engineers and technicians pulled together to find and fix a leak inside the Large Hadron Collider.
The magnet detectives July 11, 2023 | Sarah Charley During a routine test, two HL-LHC magnets unexpectedly flatlined. Was it just a coincidence, or did they have a common foe?
Whatever happened to the theory of everything? April 25, 2023 | Sarah Charley A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go?
LHC experiments see four top quarks March 24, 2023 | Sarah Charley The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.
Meet Quantum Kate August 30, 2022 | Sarah Charley The animated YouTube series Quantum Kate is a teenager’s guide to modern physics.
Wait, didn’t the LHC already “restart?” July 5, 2022 | Sarah Charley Today marks the start of LHC Run 3. So what was #restartingLHC in April all about?
Particle Fever: Where are they now? June 23, 2022 | Sarah Charley The 2013 documentary Particle Fever follows physicists from the start-up of the LHC through the discovery of the Higgs boson. Where are those physicists now?
What’s up with the W boson mass? May 25, 2022 | Sarah Charley The CDF experiment at Fermilab measured the mass of the W boson and came up with an answer that no one expected.
Can a theory ever die? May 3, 2022 | Sarah Charley Neglected theories will wilt and wither but can bloom again with enough attention.
Double trouble Higgs April 26, 2022 | Sarah Charley Scientists worried Higgs pairs would be too rare for LHC experiments to find. But by using machine learning, they now are getting tantalizingly close.