Read article 'Charmless baryonic B decays'
Charmless baryonic B decays
The LHCb collaboration has made the first sightings of the decay of B mesons into two baryons containing no charm quarks.
Read article 'Charmless baryonic B decays'
Read article 'ALICE goes to Stockholm and Birmingham'
ALICE goes to Stockholm and Birmingham
The ALICE collaboration had a significant presence at two recent major conferences: EPSHEP 2013 and SQM2013
Read article 'ISOLDE experiments: from a new magic number to the rarest element'
ISOLDE experiments: from a new magic number to the rarest element
Two teams working on experiments at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have published results that extend knowledge in different areas of nuclear and atomic physics.
Read article 'ALICE through a gamma-ray looking glass'
ALICE through a gamma-ray looking glass
The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles. Its design combines an excellent vertex resolution with a ...
Read article 'The return of quarkonia'
The return of quarkonia
The physics of heavy quark–antiquark bound states is a long-standing puzzle, made more intriguing by results from the LHC.
Read article 'Are some atomic nuclei pear shaped?'
Are some atomic nuclei pear shaped?
Most atomic nuclei that exist naturally are not spherical but have the shape of a rugby ball.
Read article 'First jet measurements with ALICE'
First jet measurements with ALICE
When quarks and gluons (partons) in opposing beams at high-energy hadron colliders meet they can scatter violently to produce correlated showers of particles, or “jets”. In proton–pr...
Read article 'Luminosity-independent measurement of the proton–proton total cross-section at 8 TeV'
Luminosity-independent measurement of the proton–proton total cross-section at 8 TeV
The TOTEM collaboration has published the first luminosity-independent measurement at the LHC of the total proton–proton cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV.
Read article 'ALICE looks to the future'
ALICE looks to the future
After more than three years of highly successful operation, the ALICE detector is about to undergo a major programme of consolidation and upgrade during the Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) of CERN’s ac...
Read article 'Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball'
Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball
To see how much of a heavy ion participates in a collision, ALICE must determine a key parameter – centrality.
