What a proton is depends on how you look at it, or rather on how hard you hit it. A century after Rutherford’s discovery, our picture of this ubiquitous particle is coming into focus.
The events leading to Ernest Rutherford’s discovery of the proton, published in 1919.
New political landscapes make international organisations in science more vital than ever, argues John Womersley.
The Japanese government has put on hold a decision about hosting the International Linear Collider (ILC), to the disappointment of many hoping for clarity ahead of the update of the European strategy for particle physics. […]
The LHCb collaboration has released a much anticipated update on its measurement of RK – a ratio that describes how often a B+ meson decays to a charged kaon and either a μ+μ– or an […]
Recent experimental results hint that some electroweak processes are not lepton-flavour independent, contrary to Standard Model expectations. If the effect strengthens as more data are gathered, possible explanations range from new gauge forces to leptoquarks.
The MEG II experiment is preparing to probe the muon’s flavour-violating decay to a positron and a photon with unprecedented sensitivity.
Christian Stegmann, director of DESY’s newly established research division for astroparticle physics, describes the ambitious plans ahead in this vibrant field.
On 10 April, researchers working on the Event Horizon Telescope – a network of eight radio dishes that creates an Earth-sized interferometer – released the first direct image of a black hole. The landmark result, […]
These days, in certain parts of the world at least, “hadron collider” and “Higgs boson” are practically household names. This is a consequence of the LHC, and the global communications that surrounded its construction, switch-on and […]