Read article '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'
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'
News from the DIS 2012 workshop held earlier this year in Bonn.
Read article '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'
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 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'
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 'Tevatron experiments observe evidence for Higgs-like particle'
The CDF and DØ collaborations at Fermilab have found evidence for the production of a Higgs-like particle decaying into a pair of bottom and antibottom quarks, independent of the recently announced H...
Read article 'A day to remember'
A summary of this issue of the CERN Courier featuring the discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July this year.
Read article 'Discovery of a new boson – the ATLAS perspective'
ATLAS reports on their side of the story regarding the discovery of the Higgs boson.
