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Andy’s collection of Bubble chamber tins: Institutions across the UK have provided Bubble chamber film reels at his request.

Old data, new insights: Restoration and renewed investigation of Bubble chamber data

Explore the remarkable work of Dr Andy Chisholm, an academic at the University of Birmingham, who is leading an effort to digitise historic bubble chamber film data.

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DNA of superconducting magnets: Rutherford cable

An innovation from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Rutherford Cable made powerful superconducting magnets feasible, shaping technologies from medical imaging to the Large Hadron Collider.

Close-up of a laser set-up at the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators, SCAPA.

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The LhARA initiative; how physics can guide biology to deliver better cancer care

The multidisciplinary LhARA collaboration is developing a cutting-edge facility designed to serve as a versatile research platform. This future facility will support an extensive radiobiological research programme.

MICE apparatus encased in metal panels to shield computing infrastructure from strong magnetic fields

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Muon collider: potential, challenges and pathways forward

The particle physics community is exploring post-LHC collider facilites, with the muon collider emerging as a promising candidate.

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Unravelling the web: how particle physics launched the invention that changed the world

The World Wide Web is an example of an ground-breaking invention that has stemmed from particle physics. This article details its origins, RAL's early adoption and the infleunce...

Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Credit: CERN

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The past, present and future of UK – CERN collaboration

In commemoration of CERN’s 70th anniversary, this article will reflect upon the UK wide contribution to CERN from its founding to ongoing HL-LHC upgrades. This shining example of...

Concept for the XLZD experimental cavern

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The first steps towards a next generation dark matter detector

Work begins for XLZD, an international collaboration tasked with building a next generation dark matter detector. STFC plays a major role within this collaboration's preliminary design phase.

A tall, cylindrical scientific instrument with visible wiring. The walls surrounding it are reflective metal.

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LUX-ZEPLIN announces new results in search for dark matter

The world's most sensitive WIMP dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN, has announced new results in its search for dark matter. These new results imposes further constraints on WIMP candidates.

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FLF recipient, Dr Ashlea Kemp, seeks to expand the search for dark matter

Future Leader Fellowship recipient, Dr Ashlea Kemp, will join the STFC Particle Physics Department at RAL to conduct research on under-represented dark matter candidates

Ring-shaped detector component loaded inside small testing chamber

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RAL helps design new detector for CERN’s LHC

Teams from the Particle Physics and Technology departments at RAL are working on a new detector for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

LHCb group members sat in the RAL Visitors Centre watching a talk

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Looking for beauty: LHCb UK members meet at RAL

Every January, the UK members of the major CERN experiments hold annual collaboration meetings, to discuss how they’ll contribute to the research planned for the year ahead. This...

a view 10m above a Placeholder for the AION interferometer in the Beecroft building at Oxford University.

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The newly built lab to uncover the mystery of the early universe

AION is the first large-scale atom interferometer in the UK that aims to explore ultra-light dark matter and mid-frequency gravitational waves using techniques based on quantum interference effects.