Tag: Interviews and Features
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From particle flow to learned reconstruction at CMS
From particle flow to learned reconstruction at CMS An interactive version of the above event display can be found on this page. For more than a decade, particle-flow reconstruction has been at the core of CMS event interpretation. It was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs boson and remains foundational for virtually every analysis
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ROOT Users Workshop 2025
ROOT Users Workshop 2025 ROOT is a software framework at the heart of HEP’s Software Ecosystem. It is an open source project, hosted on GitHub. Laboratories such as GSI, FNAL, CERN, as well as several universities contribute to it. Moreover, many talented and motivated individuals develop ROOT: during 2025, more than 90 distinct contributors made
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Momentum Builds for the Future Circular Collider at the 9th FCC Physics Workshop in Munich
Momentum Builds for the Future Circular Collider at the 9th FCC Physics Workshop in Munich From 26 to 30 January 2026, the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Garching, near Munich, hosted the 9th FCC Physics Workshop, a major gathering of theorists and experimentalists advancing the physics case, solving the experimental challenges, and developing detector
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AMBER — En route to measure the proton radius
AMBER — En route to measure the proton radius After months of excitement and almost continuous, frenetic activity since August, AMBER’s vast experimental hall — more than 10 m high and stretching over 60 m from the upstream collimators to the far wall — now feels unusually quiet and solitary. Only a few days ago,
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Dark Showers at the LHC: from benchmarks to Run-3 readiness
Dark Showers at the LHC: from benchmarks to Run-3 readiness The search for new physics at the LHC increasingly pushes beyond traditional signatures. Among the most intriguing possibilities are dark showers—complex cascades of particles emerging from dark-sector dynamics, capable of producing rich, unconventional final states. These scenarios naturally arise in models where dark matter interacts
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From vertex to calorimeter: R&D challenges in detector mechanics for future colliders (WP4)
From vertex to calorimeter: R&D challenges in detector mechanics for future colliders (WP4) EP R&D WP4 is developing innovative mechanical, thermal, and automation solutions to meet the unprecedented demands of next-generation collider detectors. The next generation of detectors will face increasingly demanding challenges due to the large scale, precision, and extreme operating conditions of future
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Triple Higgs Frontiers: Mapping the Higgs self-couplings at the 2025 HHH workshop
Triple Higgs Frontiers: Mapping the Higgs self-couplings at the 2025 HHH workshop More than a decade after the discovery of the Higgs boson, attention is shifting from finding the Higgs to mapping its self-interactions. These self-couplings determine the shape of the Higgs potential, and with it the stability of our vacuum and the early Universe.
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Highlights from the 2nd NGT Technical Workshop
Highlights from the 2nd NGT Technical Workshop Participants of the 2nd Next Generation Triggers Technical Workshop at the Globe of Science and Innovation. Picture: Mariana Velho From 19 to 21 November 2025, the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) project held its 2nd Technical Workshop at CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation, welcoming more than one hundred
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Marek Gazdzicki: Four Decades at the SPS – and Still Surprised by Strong Interactions
Marek Gazdzicki: Four Decades at the SPS – and Still Surprised by Strong Interactions After nearly two decades at the helm of NA61/SHINE, Marek Gazdzicki reflects in this interview on a lifetime at the SPS — from proposing the world’s first two-dimensional scan of nuclear collisions to the unexpected discovery of a large isospin symmetry
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Aerogel RICH detector for the future ALICE 3 PID system at LHC
Aerogel RICH detector for the future ALICE 3 PID system at LHC For the LHC Runs 5, starting in 2036, the ALICE collaboration is proposing a new apparatus, ALICE 3 (CDS record), to further investigate the properties of Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) following the physics measurement campaign of LHC Runs 3 and 4. Despite significant progress,