Read article 'Seeing bosons in heavy-ion collisions'
Studies of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC are challenging and refining ideas on how to probe QCD – the theory of the strong interaction – at high temperature and density.
Read article 'Elements 114 and 116 receive official names'
IUPAC has officially approved the names "flerovium" (Fl) for the element with atomic number 114 and "livermorium" (Lv), for the one with atomic number 116.
Read article 'Lead collisions in the LHC top the bill in Cagliari'
Hard Probes 2012 – the 5th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of Nuclear Collisions – took place in Cagliari on 27 May – 1 June.
Read article 'Dijets confirm the Standard Model'
Dijet measurements provide an excellent tool not only to probe high transverse-momentum parton interactions to study QCD but also to look for signs of new phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Read article 'ALICE tracks charm energy loss in the QGP'
The first direct observation of the suppression of charmed mesons at high transverse-momentum in head-on nucleus–nucleus collisions indicates that charm quarks suffer a strong loss of energy in hot...
Read article 'Light work with heavy ions'
Fragmentation of heavy nuclei provides beams of light ions at CERN.
Read article 'J/Ψ production in high-multiplicity pp collisions'
The J/Ψ meson, a bound state of a charm and an anticharm quark, has always been an important testing ground for quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing. Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 93, August 2009'
This book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August 2009.
Read article 'Results from SPIN@COSY may bode well for RHIC'
These results may help to increase the polarization in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven when it is used as a 250 GeV/c polarized proton collider
Read article 'ALICE unveils mysteries of the J/ψ'
Analysis of early results from both nucleus–nucleus and proton–proton collisions at the LHC indicate that a final answer on the fate of the J/ψ inside a hot QGP seems to be within reach.
