The BSM-2025 Conference, organized by the UK-based journal Progress in High Energy Physics (PHEP), in collaboration with Sabancı Üniversitesi, follows the successful precedents of BSM-2023 and ...

Just like particle physics, cosmology has its own standard model. It is also powerful in prediction, and brings new mysteries and profound implications. The first was the realisation in 1917 that a ...

What’s in a name? Reflecting their mystery, the first exotic states were named X, Y and Z. Later on, the proliferation of exotic states required an extension of the particle naming scheme. Manifestly ...

Threading the needle The LHCb experiment at CERN sparked a renaissance in charm physics with two intriguing measurements that challenge theorists to improve the precision of their predictions. Credit: ...

The past seven decades have seen remarkable cultural and technological changes. And CERN has been no passive observer. From modelling European cooperation in the aftermath of World War II to ...

Low-Earth orbit The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (extreme left), attached to the exposure facility of the Japanese Kibo module at the ISS. Credit: JAXA In a series of daring balloon flights in 1912 ...

In 1968, deep underground in the Homestake gold mine in South Dakota, Ray Davis Jr. observed too few electron neutrinos emerging from the Sun. The reason, we now know, is that many had changed flavour ...

Misfits Massive neutrinos are not part of the Standard Model. Credit: Symmetry After all these years, neutrinos remain extraordinary – and somewhat deceptive. The experimental success of the ...

Further reading M Reuter and F Saueressig 2019 Quantum Gravity and the Functional Renormalization Group: The Road towards Asymptotic Safety (Cambridge University Press). F Saueressig 2023 In Handbook ...

Innovation in superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) technology and applications is fundamental for the success of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project and the next-generation particle colliders ...

A host of other design issues have also come into play, so adaptability is key. For starters, given that FAIR is situated in a wooded recreation area for neighbouring communities, the height of the ...

Masterful The young Cabibbo lecturing at about the time he proposed his angle. Credit: Family photograph In a 1961 book, Richard Feynman describes the great satisfaction he and Murray Gell-Mann felt ...