Read article 'Experiments in Soudan mine seem fine after shaft fire'
Research teams think that there is little damage, if any, to the two large particle-physics experiments in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, following a fire in the access shaft on 17 March, which shut d...
Read article 'NA63’s enlightening experiments'
Strong electric fields in crystals provide a laboratory to study QED.
Read article 'A sparkling tale of spin-off'
How research on diamond detectors led to a hi-tech company in Austria.
Read article 'PAMELA data challenge theory for cosmic-ray acceleration'
The satellite experiment Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) has reported finding differences between the shapes of the energy spectra of protons and heliu...
Read article 'ALICE gets with the flow'
With data from the first heavy-ion run at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has made the first observation of elliptic flow of charged particles in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair.
Read article 'The CMS experiment puts physics onto the menu'
CMS serves up physics with its trigger menu.
Read article 'CMS studies energy imbalance in jets in heavy-ion collisions'
The CMS experiment has released results of a new study that sheds more light on the phenomenon known as di-jet energy imbalance.
Read article 'CERN launches AIDA project'
The AIDA project (Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators) will develop detector infrastructures for future particle-physics experiments in line with the European Strategy for ...
Read article 'The world’s biggest IceCube is ready for action'
Deep in the ice at the South Pole, the IceCube detector is now fully functioning after six years of challenging construction.
Read article 'ATLAS observes striking imbalance of jet energies in heavy ion collisions'
The ATLAS experiment has made the first observation of an unexpectedly large imbalance of energy in pairs of jets created in lead-ion collisions at the LHC.
