Read article 'Two channels for the top–antitop excess'
The CMS collaboration reported an excess of top-antitop pairs in a new decay channel, consistent with the formation of a fleeting quasi-bound state.
Read article 'Jets boost nuclear coalescence'
The ALICE collaboration reported the first measurement of deuteron production in and out of jets in p–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV.
Read article 'Suppression grows with system size'
The CMS collaboration compared high-transverse-momentum particle yields in oxygen–oxygen, neon–neon, xenon–xenon and lead–lead collisions.
Read article 'Quarkonium experts regroup at CERN'
The 17th Quarkonium Working Group brought together more than 200 researchers at CERN from 17 to 21 November.
Read article 'The top turns thirty'
The 18th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics brought the top-quark community to Seoul, South Korea, from 21 to 26 September 2025.
Read article 'Charm and beauty alike in fragmentation'
By tracking how much of a jet’s momentum each hadron carries, the LHCb collaboration has now compared how charm, beauty and light quarks hadronise.
Read article 'How I learnt to stop worrying and love QCD predictions'
Muon g-2 Theory Initiative chair Aida El-Khadra discusses conflicting datasets, disparate calculations and hot competition between research groups.
Read article 'Budapest brims with heavy ions'
The 25th Zimányi Winter School gathered 120 researchers in Budapest to discuss recent advances in medium- and high-energy nuclear physics.
Read article 'Strangeness at its extremes'
The ALICE collaboration has performed one of the most precise studies of strange-to-non-strange hadron production to date at the LHC.
Read article 'First oxygen and neon collisions at the LHC'
Between 29 June and 9 July 2025, LHC physicists pushed the study of the quark–gluon plasma into new territory.
