Read article 'ATLAS enlists monojets in search for new physics'
Events with a single jet of particles in the final state have traditionally been studied in the context of searches for supersymmetry, for large extra spatial dimensions and for candidates for dark ma...
Read article 'Quarks on the menu in Munich'
400 theorists and experimentalists from all around the world convened in Munich on 8–12 October to discuss developments in the theory of strong interactions.
Read article 'Leptons on the trail of the unexpected'
Searches in LHC data that do not depend on specific theoretical models provide a valuable complement to optimized, model-dependent searches because they have the capacity to uncover hints of the compl...
Read article 'LHCb reports first 5σ observation of charm mixing'
The large cross-section for charm production at the LHC, and the geometry and instrumentation of the LHCb detector, provide samples of charmed hadrons far larger than those accumulated by previous exp...
Read article 'Using the LHC as a photon collider'
The protons and nuclei accelerated by the LHC are surrounded by strong electric and magnetic fields. These fields can be treated as an equivalent flux of photons, making the LHC the world’s most pow...
Read article 'Quark Matter goes to Washington'
QM2012 focuses on the physics of the quark–gluon plasma.
Read article 'Charting the future of European particle physics'
The original CERN convention, which was drafted nearly 60 years ago, foresaw that the organization should have a role as co-ordinator for European particle physics, as well as operating international...
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 'Particle and nuclear physics intersect in Florida'
Reporting on a range of topics from CIPANP 2012.
