CERN Courier

1 month ago | cerncourier.com | Jim Al-Khalili

Quantum Drama, by Jim Baggott and John L Heilbron, Oxford University Press When I was an undergraduate physics student in the mid-1980s, I fell in love with the philosophy of quantum mechanics.

Jan 24, 2025 | cerncourier.com | Alan BaRr |Alan Barr |Guy Wilkinson |Tony Weidberg

Experimental particle physicist Ian Shipsey, a remarkable leader and individual, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Oxford on 7 October. Ian was educated at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Edinburgh, where he earned his PhD in 1986 for his work on the NA31 experiment at CERN. Moving to the US, he joined Syracuse as a post-doc and then became a faculty member at Purdue, where, in 2007, he was elected Julian Schwinger Distinguished Professor of Physics.

Sep 16, 2024 | cerncourier.com | Anthony Butler

The seventh workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors was held at CERN from 15 to 18 April. This year’s workshop brought together more than 100 experts in medical imaging, radiology, physics and engineering. The workshop focused on the latest advancements in spectroscopic X-ray detectors and their applications in medical diagnostics and treatment.

Jul 5, 2024 | cerncourier.com | Robert Byer

On-chip acceleration pioneers Robert Byer, Joel England, Peter Hommelhoff and Roy Shiloh report on progress to miniaturise accelerators from centimetres to microns.

Jul 5, 2024 | cerncourier.com | Silvia Pascoli

Newly appointed EuCAPT director Silvia Pascoli sets out her vision for disentangling fundamental questions involving dark matter, the baryon asymmetry, neutrinos, cosmic rays, gravitational waves, dark energy and other cosmic relics. Astroparticle physics connects the extremely small with the extremely large. At the interface of particle physics, cosmology and astronomy, the field ties particles and interactions to the hot Big Bang cosmological model.