"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is currently the Large Hadron Collider bridging ...

[本站讯]6月13日，应欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）邀请，校长李术才率团访问CERN—ATLAS合作组。ATLAS合作组发言人暨负责人安德烈亚斯·霍克（Andreas Hoecker）教授、山东大学ATLAS团队负责人李海峰教授与代表团一行进行了座谈交流。 座谈会上，霍克教授详细介绍了 ...

Something odd is happening deep inside the data streams from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. A set of “forbidden” patterns in ...

The ATLAS particle detector at CERN. It uses a calorimeter to measure the energies of particles that fly off after each proton collision. Maximilien Brice/CERN An image taken inside the tunnel ...

The ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going on tour. Not the real one of course, but a 150 kg wooden replica of the cathedral-sized detector. Technicians at the DESY ...

Anyone with even a passing interest in the sciences must have wondered what it’s like to work at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN. Based in Switzerland, it’s one of ...