Tag: January 2026 – March 2026
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Doubly charmed baryon doublet completed with upgraded LHCb
Doubly charmed baryon doublet completed with upgraded LHCb The image on the left presents an artist’s impression of this exotic particle, while the diagram on the right shows a kind of “family tree” of the proton, illustrating how heavier relatives emerge when its quarks are replaced by strange (s), charm (c), or bottom (b) quarks.
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ATLAS scales up AI for jet physics and reveals flavour-tagging scaling laws
ATLAS scales up AI for jet physics and reveals flavour-tagging scaling laws High Energy Physics (HEP) and Machine Learning (ML/AI) are uniquely aligned: The data recorded by particle physics experiments are so rich, heterogeneous and complicated that scientists crucially depend on advanced pattern recognition in order to extract physics results. It’s for this reason that
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Opportunities in CERN’s Experimental Physics (EP) Department
Opportunities in CERN’s Experimental Physics (EP) Department New opportunities are currently open in the EP Department. You are invited to consult the latest vacancies: HERE.
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PUMA – Antiprotons as a precision probe for the tail of nuclear density
PUMA – Antiprotons as a precision probe for the tail of nuclear density Understanding the nuclear structure of atomic nuclei away from the valley of stability remains one of the central challenges of nuclear physics and astrophysics. In particular, the dilute outer regions of neutron-rich nuclei can exhibit phenomena such as neutron halos and neutron
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A word from the EP Department Head – Spring 2026
A word from the EP Department Head – Spring 2026 Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to share the first 2026 edition of the EP newsletter with you, in my new role as EP Department Head. CERN’s new management took office in January, with a revised structure of Sectors and Departments. In EP, we reorganised
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New Staff Members and Fellows
New Staff Members and Fellows Maximilian Babeluk Hi, I’m Max. I recently joined the ALICE ITS3 team, where I work on sensor testing, functional verification, and in the future also chip design – particularly on MOSAIX. My main activities include testing and yield assessment across multiple integration levels (wafer probing to system tests), including data
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Neutrino Oscillations and Beyond: A Conversation with Takaaki Kajita
Neutrino Oscillations and Beyond: A Conversation with Takaaki Kajita 2015 physics laureate Takaaki Kajita is affiliated with Super-Kamiokande (pictured right) and received the Nobel Prize for his neutrino oscillations research which proves that neutrinos have mass. Few discoveries in modern particle physics have reshaped our understanding of nature as profoundly as the discovery of neutrino
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Chris Quigg: Grace in All Simplicity and the Unfinished Business of the Standard Model
Chris Quigg: Grace in All Simplicity and the Unfinished Business of the Standard Model Panos Charitos: More than half a century has passed since the “November Revolution” — the 1974 discovery of the J/ψ that reshaped particle physics. In your recent keynote, you revisited that moment. Why is it so vital to remember 1974 today?
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Riccardo Barbieri: On naturalness, supersymmetry and the unfinished story of the Standard Model
Riccardo Barbieri: On naturalness, supersymmetry and the unfinished story of the Standard Model Riccardo Barbieri has spent more than five decades at the forefront of theoretical particle physics, contributing to key developments in quantum field theory, electroweak precision physics and the exploration of physics beyond the Standard Model. A longtime professor at the Scuola Normale
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From top quarks to Higgs bosons: LHCb’s expanding jet programme
From top quarks to Higgs bosons: LHCb’s expanding jet programme Over the past decade, LHCb has steadily evolved from a detector primarily associated with heavy-flavour physics into a broader forward spectrometer able to address an increasingly diverse set of questions in Standard Model and beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. Two recent papers illustrate that evolution particularly well. One