Read article 'The curious case of the J/ψ flow'
Recently, the ALICE collaboration measured the elliptic flow of J/ψ mesons with unprecedented precision in lead–lead (Pb–Pb) collisions and, for the first time, also in proton–lead (p–Pb) col...
Read article 'Fastest spinning fluid clocked by RHIC'
Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that droplets of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) can spin faster than any other fluid. The immensely h...
Read article 'CMS observes top quarks in proton–nucleus collisions'
The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle in the Standard Model, has been the subject of numerous detailed studies in proton–antiproton and proton–proton collisions at the Tevatron and LHC s...
Read article 'ALICE studies possible light tetraquark'
Radius parameters versus average transverse kaon-pair momentum determined from K0S – K± correlations and identical-kaon correlations in central ALICE lead–lead collisions. The a0(980) ...
Read article '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 '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'
Deep Inelastic Scattering 2017 (DIS17) demonstrates how deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and related topics permeate most aspects of high-energy physics
Read article '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'
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 '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 ...
