Read article 'Jet ν2 measurements with ALICE'
High-energy scattering of partons (quarks and gluons) produces collimated cones of particles called jets, the production rate of which can be calculated using perturbative QCD techniques. In heavy-ion...
Read article 'Manufacturing and delivery of components for the new heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100 at FAIR has begun'
The international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) (CERN Courier May 2007 p23) is currently under construction at GSI, in Darmstadt, Germany. The FAIR accelerators will delive...
Read article 'A new chapter opens with more Pb–Pb collisions for a precision study of hot and dense QCD matter'
After the restart of the LHC physics programme in June 2015 with world-record proton– proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, nuclear beams reappeared in the LHC tunnel in Novembe...
Read article 'Fixed-target and heavy-ion physics with LHCb'
Beyond its rich programme in flavour physics based on proton–proton collisions, LHCb opened the door in 2015 to a new domain of physics exploration related to cosmic-ray and heavy-ion physics. D...
Read article 'LHCb measures the effective double parton scattering cross-section with unprecedented precision'
In high-energy hadron–hadron collisions, each incoming hadron behaves as a loosely bound system of massless partons – quarks, antiquarks and gluons. The interaction of incoming hadrons is describe...
Read article 'ATLAS observes long-range elliptic anisotropies in √s = 13 and 2.76 TeV pp collisions'
Measurements of two-particle angular correlations in proton–proton (pp) collisions at the LHC have shown a feature commonly called the “ridge”: an enhancement in production of particle p...
Read article 'Penetrating and puzzling: photons shed light on heavy-ion collisions'
Résumé Les émissions de photons éclairent les collisions d’ions lourds La lumière émise dans des collisions à haute énergie de noyaux lourds révè...
Read article 'CMS observes long-range correlations in pp collisions at 13 TeV'
The CMS collaboration has published its first particle-correlation result from proton–proton (pp) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The paper describes the observation of a phenomeno...
Read article 'STAR tracker snares heavy flavours'
Heavy quarks are important probes of the quark–gluon plasma that is produced when relativistic heavy ions collide. Because of a mass effect, it has been argued that heavy quarks lose less energy thr...
Read article 'ALICE in Vienna: from antinuclei to quark–gluon plasma'
The 2015 edition of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2015), which took place in Vienna in July (“Vienna hosts a high-energy particle waltz”), provid...
