Read article 'ATLAS gives new limits in the search for dark matter'
There is evidence for dark matter from many astronomical observations, yet so far, dark matter has not been seen in particle-physics experiments, and there is no evidence for non-gravitational interac...
Read article 'Ground breaking for China’s new neutrino observatory'
On 10 January, the ground-breaking ceremony for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) took place in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China. More than 300 scientists and officials fr...
Read article 'HESS sees a powerful trio in a nearby galaxy'
High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) has discovered three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way about 170,000 li...
Read article 'The LHC gears up for season 2'
As the re-starting of the LHC approaches, teams at CERN continue their preparations.
Read article 'Pakistan to become associate member state of CERN'
On 19 December, CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, and the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Ansar Parvez, signed in Islamabad the agreement admitting the Islamic Republic of Pak...
Read article 'CERN-JINR reciprocal observers'
During its December meeting, Council also welcomed the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR, for the first time as an observer to Council, as part of a reciprocal arrangement that also sees CERN...
Read article 'LHCf detectors are back in the LHC tunnel'
The Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment measures neutral particles emitted around zero degrees of the hadron interactions at the LHC.
Read article 'Narrowing down the ‘stealth stop’ gap with ATLAS'
In late 2011, ATLAS launched a dedicated programme targeting searches for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark – the scalar top, or "stop" – which could be pair-produced in high-energy prot...
Read article 'CMS measures the ‘underlying event’ in pp collisions'
Ever since the earliest experiments with hadron beams, and subsequently during the era of the hadron colliders heralded by CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, it has been clear that hadron collisions...
Read article 'LHCb observes two new strange-beauty baryons'
Predicted to exist by the quark model, they are both baryons containing three quarks, in this case, b, s and d.
