Supergravity pioneers share $3m Breakthrough Prize
Marriage of supersymmetry and general relativity continues to impact theoretical physics.
Austrian synchrotron debuts carbon-ion cancer treatment
MedAustron becomes one of six centres worldwide to treat tumours with carbon ions.
Niobium-tin cavities for smaller accelerators
High-frequency superconducting radio-frequency cavities made from niobium–tin alloy are more efficient than conventional niobium designs.
Clocking the merger of two white dwarfs
As two white dwarfs orbited one another they slowly lost momentum through the emission of gravitational waves.
How many protons collided in ATLAS in Run 2?
The uncertainty of several ATLAS Run-1 measurements was dominated by systematic uncertainty on the integrated luminosity.
New constraints on charm–quark hadronisation
Heavier quarks, such as charm, can provide unique insights as they are produced early in the collisions, and their interactions with the QGP differ from their lighter cousins.
Studying neutron stars in the laboratory
The ALICE collaboration is now using the scattering between particles produced in collisions at the LHC to constrain interaction potentials in a new way.
Three-body B+ decays violate CP
LHCb’s amplitude analyses contain the largest CP asymmetry in a single component of an amplitude analysis, found in the ππ ↔ KK re-scattering amplitude.
Kilogram joins the ranks of reproducible units
Fixing the elementary charge makes the vacuum magnetic permeability an unfixed parameter to be measured experimentally.
Computing boost for Lebanon and Nepal
The High-Performance Computing for Lebanon project is part of efforts by Lebanese scientists to boost the nation’s research capabilities.
