Read article 'Plasma polarised by spin-orbit effect'
Though several mysteries remain, the ALICE collaboration has uncovered evidence that quark-gluon plasmas with extreme angular momenta become polarised.
Read article 'LHC and RHIC heavy ions dovetail in Wuhan'
Quark Matter 2019 heard about new probes of the quark-gluon plasma, including first observations of the exotic hadron X(3872) and top-antitop production.
Read article 'LHC at 10: the physics legacy'
The LHC’s physics programme has transformed our understanding of elementary particles, writes Michelangelo Mangano.
Read article 'More plasma quenching seen in wide jets'
The quark-gluon plasma has a characteristic angular scale below which high-momentum shower components are not resolved, but interact as a single partonic fragment.
Read article 'Beauty baryons strike again'
The LHCb experiment has observed new beauty-baryon states, consistent with theoretical expectations for excited Ωb− baryons.
Read article 'Hypertriton lifetime puzzle nears resolution'
A new measurement by ALICE casts recent debates on this bound state of a proton, neutron and Λ in a new light.
Read article 'ALICE probes extreme electromagnetic fields'
When fewer than half the available lead nucleons merge and form a quark–gluon plasma, the spectators generate the strongest electromagnetic fields yet probed by scientists.
Read article 'Odessa conference surveys new trends'
The 2019 edition of New Trends in High Energy Physics had an emphasis on heavy-ion physics and strong interactions.
Read article 'Exotic hadrons take centre stage in Guilin'
HADRON2019 reviewed studies of exotic states at facilities around the world.
Read article 'Quark-matter mysteries on the run in Bari'
Among the highlights at Strangeness in Quark Matter 2019 were reports on where strangeness enhancement is localised in phase space.
