Read article 'Tooling up to hunt dark matter'
Tooling up to hunt dark matter
The TOOLS 2020 conference attracted around 200 phenomenologists and experimental physicists to work on numerical tools for dark-matter models, and more.
Read article 'Tooling up to hunt dark matter'
Read article 'In search of WISPs'
In search of WISPs
Experiments such as MADMAX, IAXO and ALPS II are expanding the search for axions and other weakly interacting ‘slim’ particles that could hail from far above the TeV scale.
Read article 'Deep learning tailors supersymmetry searches'
Deep learning tailors supersymmetry searches
CMS has released a new search for charginos and neutralinos, with sensitivity boosted by the use of parametric machine learning.
Read article 'Implementing a vision for CERN’s future'
Implementing a vision for CERN’s future
The 2020 update of the European strategy for particle physics forms the basis of CERN’s objectives for the next five years, explains CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti.
Read article 'A long-lived paradigm shift'
A long-lived paradigm shift
Experimentalists and theorists met from 16 to 19 November for the eighth workshop of the LHC's long-lived particles community.
Read article 'Strong interest in feeble interactions'
Strong interest in feeble interactions
The FIPs 2020 workshop was structured around portals that may link the Standard Model to a rich dark sector: axions, dark photons, dark scalars and heavy neutral leptons.
Read article 'In pursuit of right-handed photons'
In pursuit of right-handed photons
The presence of new virtual particles could be clearly signalled by a right-handed contribution to the photon polarisation.
Read article 'Leptoquarks and the third generation'
Leptoquarks and the third generation
In a recent CMS analysis researchers have challenged the Standard Model by investigating a previously unexplored leptoquark signature.
Read article 'Sensing a passage through the unknown'
Sensing a passage through the unknown
A global network of ultra-sensitive optical atomic magnetometers – GNOME – has begun its search for exotic fields beyond the Standard Model.
Read article 'Researchers grapple with XENON1T excess'
Researchers grapple with XENON1T excess
The excess could be due to a difficult-to-constrain tritium background, solar axions or solar neutrinos with a Majorana nature, says the collaboration.
