Read article '…and measures suppression of single jets in heavy-ion collisions'
While primarily designed for proton–proton collisions, the ATLAS detector is also an excellent tool to perform measurements in the hot, dense environment of heavy-ion collisions, where temperatures ...
Read article 'ALICE measures the shape of
head-on lead–lead collisions'
One the many surprises to have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and now at CERN's LHC concerns the extreme fluidity of the dense matt...
Read article 'TOTEM probes new depths in pp elastic scattering'
Finding out more about the proton at LHC energies.
Read article 'ALICE goes in search of charmonium in the quark–gluon plasma'
The results, presented at the Quark Matter 2011 conference (Heavy ions in Annecy), hint at the recombination of charm and anticharm quarks in the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisi...
Read article 'COSY finds evidence for an exotic particle…'
Experiments at the Jülich Cooler Synchrotron, COSY, have found evidence for a new complex state in the two-baryon system, with mass 2.37 GeV and width 70 MeV.
Read article 'Heavy ions in Annecy'
A turning point in understanding at Quark Matter 2011.
Read article 'ISOLDE explores the Island of Inversion'
Homing in on a missing piece in the study of exotic nuclei.
Read article 'Hadrons in Munich: from light mesons to heavy ions'
Highlights from the HADRON 2011 conference.
Read article 'ATLAS sheds light on new physics'
Photons have an important role at the LHC, not only as tools for testing the Standard Model but also as heralds of new physics.
Read article 'ALICE and the charm of heavy-ion collisions'
This is the first time that D meson suppression has been measured directly in central nucleus–nucleus collisions.
