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First light for the PAU camera

PAUCam, the camera for the Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) project, has been successfully installed and commissioned at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Ob...

Fermilab sets neutrino-beam record

In June, Fermilab’s Main Injector accelerator sustained a 521 kW proton beam, and set a world record for the production of high-energy neutrinos with a proton accelerator. The 120 GeV ...

Do magnetars power hour-long gamma-ray bursts?

Based on optical observations, a team of astronomers has, for the first time, demonstrated a link between a very long-lasting gamma-ray burst (GRB) and an unusually bright supernova explosion. The res...

LHCf makes the most of a special run

The motivation of LHCf is to understand the hadronic interactions taking place when high-energy cosmic rays collide with the Earth’s atmosphere.

Stable beams at 13 TeV

At 10.40 a.m. on 3 June, the LHC operators declared “stable beams”, signalling the official start of Run 2.

Fifth event signals discovery of ν_τ appearance

Setting out from CERN as a muon neutrino, the particle was detected at Gran Sasso as a ν_τ after travelling 730 km through the Earth.

HL-LHC begins the move from paper to hardware

The HL-LHC will contain magnets, relying on Nb₃Sn and Nb-Ti superconductors in the form of Rutherford cable, and super-ferric magnets with Nb-Ti coils.

Korean Tier-1 link upgrades to 10 Gbps

The Korean Tier-1 site of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) completed the upgrade to 10 Gbps of the bandwidth of its optical-fibre link to CERN.