Read article 'BASE demonstrates two-trap cooling'
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Read article 'COMPASS points to triangle singularity'
The collaboration last week reported the first direct evidence for the long-sought interplay between hadron decays, downplaying the chances that the a1(1420) is a new exotic hadron.
Read article 'New tetraquark a whisker away from stability'
The new state, announced today at EPS-HEP, had been held up since the 1980s as a prime candidate to be the first exotic hadronic state to be stable against strong decays.
The SuperKEKB accelerator has set a new world record for peak luminosity, reaching 3.1 × 1034 cm–2 s–1 in the Belle II detector.
The laboratory has agreed to supply a second enormous liquid-argon tank for the US-based neutrino experiment's time-projection chambers.
The workshop explored new perturbative results and methods in quantum field theory, collider physics and gravity.
Charm fragmentation fractions presented today at EPS-HEP by the ALICE collaboration are the first such measurements at the LHC.
The 25th International Conference on Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics gathered more than 1000 participants online across 20 time zones, from Brisbane to Honolulu.
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Read article 'Steven Weinberg 1933–2021'
Steven Weinberg is among the very few individuals who, during the course of the history of civilisation, have radically changed the way we look at the universe.
Read article 'Latvia to become Associate Member of CERN'
Latvia is the third of the Baltic States to join CERN in recent years after Lithuania and Estonia, and first became involved with CERN activities in the early 1990s.
Read article 'Long-lived particles gather interest'
The long-lived particle community marked five years of stretching the limits of searches for new physics with its ninth and best-attended workshop yet.
Read article 'Sustainable high-energy physics'
The workshop attracted more than 300 participants from 45 countries to discuss how the lessons learned in the past two years might help HEP transition to a more sustainable future.
Read article 'Experiment and theory trade blows at SQM 2021'
The conference attracted over 300 participants to discuss the role of strange and heavy-flavour quarks in heavy-ion collisions and astrophysical phenomena.
Read article 'IPAC thrives online'
The 2021 edition of the International Particle Accelerator Conference attracted over 1750 participants online from 24 to 28 May.
Read article 'New charmed-baryon lifetime hierarchy cast in stone'
A recent measurement by the LHCb collaboration has confirmed the measured lifetime of the doubly strange Ωc0.
Read article 'Four top quarks seen at once'
The ATLAS collaboration has uncovered the first strong evidence to support the existence of one of the most spectacular processes accessible at the LHC.
Read article 'Resistive Gaseous Detectors: Designs, Performance, and Perspectives'
This new book by Marcello Abbrescia, Vladimir Peskov and Paulo Fonte covers operational principles, latest achievements and a growing list of applications.
Read article 'What if scientists ruled the world?'
Interactive theatre performance What if scientists ruled the world? provided a welcome opportunity for scientists to reflect on how best to communicate their research.
Read article 'A relational take on quantum mechanics'
Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland is a well-written and easy-to-follow exploration of quantum mechanics and its interpretation.
Read article 'Astroparticle theory in rude health'
The European Consortium for Astroparticle theory held its first annual symposium in May, bringing together hundreds of theoretical physicists across Europe.