Physics World Big Science Briefing 2020

Physics World Big Science Briefing 2020

Welcome to this free-to-read Physics World Big Science Briefing. Inside we talk to leading personalities from major scientific facilities around the world including: Fermilab particle physics and accelerator facility; the Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) neutron research facility in Grenoble, France; the European Spallation Source (ESS an accelerator-based facility with a state-of-the-art cryogenics system opens soon in Sweden; and Canadian Light Source (CLS) in Saskatchewan, which focuses on the needs of Canadian Researchers. We also look at some of the research happening inside these big facilities – for example, the ESRF in Grenoble has been used to discover hitherto unknown structures in human bone. And on very different size scales, the kilometre-sized LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave detectors have caught sight of black holes with masses that are puzzling to astrophysicists, while the LHCb experiment at CERN has discovered two exotic subatomic particles called tetraquarks.

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