Members of CERN’s SPS and PS Experiments Committee (SPSC) visited the AMBER experiment in EHN2 on 27 May, during the committee’s week of meetings at CERN. The visit offered an opportunity to see the experiment during operation and to discuss its current and future programme at the M2 beamline in the CERN North Area.

The CERN Experimental Areas group was strongly represented at IPAC 2026, held in Deauville, France from 17 to 22 May. The conference brought together the international accelerator community to discuss developments in beam dynamics, accelerator technology, operation, optimisation and future facilities.

Successful teamwork was at the heart of the FH Aachen visit to CERN on 8th and 9th September. The winning group of this year’s pro8 competition, together with their professors, was hosted by the HL-LHC project.

Smooth beam delivery and fast setup enable new data on the QCD phase diagram.

Following an intense YETS, beam commissioning for the North and East experimental areas began smoothly and on schedule. Thanks to the coordinated efforts of the many teams involved, all beamlines were promptly handed over to users - setting the stage for what promises to be a full and exciting year of physics and test beams.

The CEDAR detectors, a cornerstone of particle identification in the secondary beams of the SPS experimental areas, got an overhaul during 2024 and return fresh to their experiments.

Paving the way to a new near detector for Hyper-Kamiokande, the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment (WCTE) aims to shed light on neutrinos. For the first time, the WCTE collaboration will begin fully operating this pathfinder detector to study how it responds to particles at CERN’s East Area T09 test-beamline.

For the first time, the BASE Collaboration transported their trap BASE-STEP loaded with protons inside CERN's Antiproton Decelerator hall.

Learn about the different areas of work in our group by our group members and take a flight over the East Area and EHN1.

After a successful construction at CERN of the upgrade for the near detector ND280, T2K’s second data-taking period has just begun. The new ND280 set-up already recorded the first neutrino interactions.

More than 4 decades of kaon experiments in CERN's North Area proved how a small number changed the universe.

Several members of the BE-EA group presented their findings on a plethora of projects at this year's flagship accelerator physics conference, IPAC.

With the North Area beamlines being ready, the physics start on 10 April marks the beginning of what promises to be an exciting season filled with physics.

On 22 March, the East Area kicked off the test-beam season with the ALICE and SHiP experiments.

During Herwig Schopper’s acclaimed period as CERN Director General, two North Area experiments made three seminal discoveries, of which two of them still leave physicists puzzled.

After having pursued studies in a STEM field, the women of the BE-EA group follow their passion and impressively show that STEM fields are not only reserved for men.

After the 152nd meeting of the SPSC, the members visited the beamlines in the EHN1 hall.

At the annual group meeting, the EA group looks into the recent past and into a bright future.