[3] The journal covers concept and instrumentation in topic areas related to, and including detector and accelerator science, including related theory, simulations, modelling, and experimental methods.

[5] The journal publishes the complete scientific documentation of the CERN Large Hadron Collider machine and detectors.

These papers are published as open access.

[6] It also publishes the technical reports concerning the Planck Low Frequency Instrument on board the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which was launched in May 2009, and the three-volume technical report of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

These papers are also published as open access.