Read article 'Particle physics meets quantum optics'
Particle physics meets quantum optics
The sixth International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP) took place on 17–29 August in Kolymbari, Crete.
Read article 'Particle physics meets quantum optics'
Read article 'Copper reveals nickel’s doubly magic nature'
Copper reveals nickel’s doubly magic nature
Teams at CERN’s ISOLDE facility and at RIKEN in Japan have found evidence that an exotic isotope of the metallic element nickel (78Ni) is doubly magic, opening a new vista on an important region of ...
Read article 'Longitudinal asymmetry tracked in heavy-ion collisions'
Longitudinal asymmetry tracked in heavy-ion collisions
In a heavy-ion collision, a longitudinal asymmetry arises due to unequal numbers of participating nucleons from the two colliding nuclei, causing a shift in the centre-of-mass (CM) of the overlapping ...
Read article 'The curious case of the J/ψ flow'
The curious case of the J/ψ flow
Recently, the ALICE collaboration measured the elliptic flow of J/ψ mesons with unprecedented precision in lead–lead (Pb–Pb) collisions and, for the first time, also in proton–lead (p–Pb) col...
Read article 'Fastest spinning fluid clocked by RHIC'
Fastest spinning fluid clocked by RHIC
Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that droplets of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) can spin faster than any other fluid. The immensely h...
Read article 'CMS observes top quarks in proton–nucleus collisions'
CMS observes top quarks in proton–nucleus collisions
The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle in the Standard Model, has been the subject of numerous detailed studies in proton–antiproton and proton–proton collisions at the Tevatron and LHC s...
Read article 'ALICE studies possible light tetraquark'
ALICE studies possible light tetraquark
Radius parameters versus average transverse kaon-pair momentum determined from K0S – K± correlations and identical-kaon correlations in central ALICE lead–lead collisions. The a0(980) ...
Read article 'Strangeness in quark matter'
Strangeness in quark matter
17th edition of the International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2017) held at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Read article 'Charm flow in the quark–gluon plasma'
Charm flow in the quark–gluon plasma
The ALICE collaboration has reported a measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy in the production of D mesons, which contain a charm quark, when measured relative to the estimated reaction plane of lea...
Read article 'A quarter century of DIS workshops'
A quarter century of DIS workshops
Deep Inelastic Scattering 2017 (DIS17) demonstrates how deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and related topics permeate most aspects of high-energy physics
