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The new detector, known as MAPP, will increase the physics reach of the MoEDAL experiment and the Large Hadron Collider
New results from the LHCb experiment on CP asymmetry in charmless three-body charged B meson decays include the largest CP asymmetry ever observed
Since its construction in 2011, HiRadMat has been a unique experimental facility for testing materials under beam impact
After over two years of upgrades and maintenance works, the four main LHC experiments are finalising preparations to receive pilot beams
The MoEDAL experiment has conducted the first search at a particle collider for magnetic monopoles produced through the Schwinger mechanism
The two barrels of the largest pixel detector ever built have been successfully lowered into the cavern and stand ready for commissioning
SND@LHC, or Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC, will be the facility’s ninth experiment
The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC and the DØ collaboration at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab have discovered an elusive state of three gluons
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The schedule for the current long shutdown (LS2) has had to be modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Our fourth story in the LHC Physics at Ten series discusses the LHC’s hunt for the hypothetical particle that may make up dark matter