Category CERN

Happy 40th Birthday W boson

On January 25 in 1983 physicists announced the discovery of the W boson at CERN. This was the culmination of work proposed in 1976 by Carlo Rubbia, David Cline, and Peter McIntyre to convert CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) a…

LHC Completes Data Taking for 2022

The large hadron collider (LHC) has completed its data taking on November 28, 2022 about two weeks earlier than originally planned earlier. Rising energy costs mostly due to the conflict in Ukraine has forced CERN to make adjustments. According to…