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 'Strangeness in quark matter'
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
Read article 'Precision study reveals proton to be lighter'
Precision study reveals proton to be lighter
A team in Germany has made the most precise measurement to date of the mass of a single proton, achieving a precision of 32 parts-per-trillion (ppt). The result not only improves on the precision of ...
Read article 'KEDR pins down R at low energies'
KEDR pins down R at low energies
The KEDR collaboration has used the VEPP-4M electron–positron collider at the Budker Institute in Russia to make the most precise measurement of the quantity “R” in the low-energy range. R is de...
Read article 'Lead nuclei under scrutiny at LHCb'
Lead nuclei under scrutiny at LHCb
In 2016 the LHC collided protons and lead nuclei for the first time at a centre-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV per nucleon–nucleon pair. In lead–lead collisions, the formation of the quark–gluon p...
Read article 'J/ψ mesons reveal stronger nuclear effects in pPb collisions'
J/ψ mesons reveal stronger nuclear effects in pPb collisions
Quarkonium states, such as the J/ψ meson, are prominent probes of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) formed in high-energy nucleus–nucleus (AA) collisions. That bulk J/ψ production is suppressed in AA...
Read article 'LHCb discovers new baryon'
LHCb discovers new baryon
The LHCb collaboration has discovered a new weakly decaying particle: a baryon called the Ξ++cc, which contains two charm quarks and an up quark. The discovery of the new particle, which was observed...
Read article 'ALICE zooms in on evolution of the quark–gluon plasma'
ALICE zooms in on evolution of the quark–gluon plasma
The precise particle-identification and momentum-measurement capabilities of the ALICE experiment allow researchers to reconstruct a variety of short-lived particles or resonances in heavy-ion collisi...
Read article 'FAIR forges its future'
FAIR forges its future
Supernova explosions, neutron-star mergers and rare radioactive ions might not seem to have much connection to terrestrial matters. Yet, while the lightest elements were synthesised immediately after ...
