Read article 'Inside pentaquarks and tetraquarks'
Marek Karliner and Jonathan Rosner ask what makes tetraquarks and pentaquarks tick, revealing them to be at times exotic compact states, at times hadronic molecules and at times both – with much sti...
Read article 'Hypertriton and ‘little bang’ nucleosynthesis'
The ALICE collaboration investigated the nucleosynthesis mechanism by measuring hypertriton production in heavy-ion collisions.
Read article 'Lattice calculations start to clarify muon g-2'
The 41st symposium, Lattice 2024, welcomed 500 participants to the University of Liverpool from 28 July to 3 August.
Read article 'ALICE does the double slit'
The ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern at the femtometre scale using ultra-peripheral collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC.
Read article 'Strange correlations benchmark hadronisation'
The ALICE analysis sought to distinguish between the Lund string fragmentation and statistical hadronisation models.
Read article 'Intrigue in charm hadronisation'
A new result from the ALICE collaboration has now added fresh intrigue to interpretations of hadronisation – the process by which quarks and gluons become confined inside colour-neutral groupings su...
Read article 'Shy charm mesons confound predictions'
The ALICE collaboration has measured the interaction of open-charm mesons with charged pions and kaons
Read article 'Ultra-peripheral conference debuts in Mexico'
The first edition of the international workshop on ultra-peripheral collisions took place from 10 to 15 December 2023 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
Read article 'Slim, charming protons on the menu in Mainz'
The triennial international conference on meson–nucleon physics and the structure of the nucleon (MENU) attracted more than 140 participants to the historic centre of Mainz.
Read article 'New subdetectors to extend ALICE’s reach'
The LHC’s dedicated heavy-ion experiment is to be equipped with an upgraded inner tracker and a new forward calorimeter during the next long shutdown.
