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Welcome to the latest issue of CERN Courier CERN Courier supports international collaboration in high-energy physics by openly communicating fundamental research and its applications. It’s a mission that comes straight from CERN’s convention – and there’s never a shortage of great work to report on. Highlights from this edition include a pioneering new statistical technique, the ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Mark Thomson, CERN's Director General designate for 2025, talks to the Courier about the future of particle physics.

OUR MISSION CERN Courier is essential reading for the international high-energy physics community. Highlighting the latest research and project developments from around the world, CERN Courier offers a unique record of the ongoing endeavour to advance our understanding of the basic laws of nature.

Sep 16, 2024 · Accelerating into the future Seventy years after construction began on CERN’s still-operational Proton Synchrotron (above, left), a new generation of researchers is being called upon to help conceive a programme for the next 70 years of high-energy physics. Credit: ©CERN/artist: A Roy In January 1962, CERN was for the first time moving from machine construction to scientific research with ...

CERN Courier is essential reading for the global high-energy physics community. The website and associated print magazine highlight the latest developments in particle physics and related fields, wherever they happen in the world. Exclusive …

Sep 16, 2024 · The Courier matched photos from CERN’s first 25 years to current experts and asked them to reflect on how much has changed across 70 years of science.

Jan 17, 2024 · The resurgence of nationalism along with pressing global challenges call for stronger scientific communities, argue Leonard Lynn and Hal Salzman.

Sep 16, 2024 · The 2024 Aspen Winter Conference, The Future of High Energy Physics: A New Generation, A New Vision, attracted 50 early-career researchers (ECRs) from across the world to the Aspen Center for Physics, 8000 feet above sea level in the Colorado Rockies, from 24 to 29 March. The conference built on the many new ideas that arose from the recent Snowmass process of the US particle physics community ...

Strong interactions Feature The other 99% Daniel Tapia Takaki describes how ultraperipheral collisions mediated by high-energy photons are shedding light on gluon saturation, gluonic hotspots and nuclear shadowing.