Read article 'Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’'
Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’
Carlos Lourenço reviews in 2012 Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’.
Read article 'Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’'
Read article 'Measurement of photons stimulates quest for QGP temperature'
Measurement of photons stimulates quest for QGP temperature
One of the classic signals expected for a quark–gluon plasma (QGP) is the radiation of "thermal photons", with a spectrum reflecting the temperature of the system.
Read article 'CMS homes in on the heaviest quark'
CMS homes in on the heaviest quark
The top quark is the heaviest point-like particle known. It weighs about as much as an atom of tungsten yet is an elementary building block of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Read article 'Deep-inelastic scattering enters the LHC era'
Deep-inelastic scattering enters the LHC era
News from the DIS 2012 workshop held earlier this year in Bonn.
Read article 'Illuminating extra dimensions with photons'
Illuminating extra dimensions with photons
Photons are a critical tool at the LHC, and the ATLAS detector has been carefully designed to measure photons precisely.
Read article 'Searching for new physics in rare kaon-decays'
Searching for new physics in rare kaon-decays
The LHCb experiment was originally conceived of to study particles containing the beauty-flavoured b quark.
Read article 'The search for ‘big news’ continues'
The search for ‘big news’ continues
The big news this summer was on the new Higgs-like boson and how the hint of an excess in last year’s 7 TeV data from the LHC became an observation with this year’s 8 TeV data.
Read article 'Boosting sensitivity to new physics'
Boosting sensitivity to new physics
The LHC is a tremendously powerful tool built to explore physics at the tera-electron-volt scale. This year it is being operated with a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, which is a little over half of ...
Read article 'Discovery of a new boson – the ATLAS perspective'
Discovery of a new boson – the ATLAS perspective
ATLAS reports on their side of the story regarding the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Read article '4 July 2012: a day to remember'
4 July 2012: a day to remember
Looking back to the day when the Standard Model was completed.
