Read article 'LHCb determines the electroweak mixing angle'
LHCb determines the electroweak mixing angle
The two most accurate determinations of the angle, carried out at LEP and SLD, are some three standard deviations different.
Read article 'LHCb determines the electroweak mixing angle'
Read article 'Novel radionuclides to kill cancer'
Novel radionuclides to kill cancer
A new radiolabelled molecule obtained by the association of a 177Lu isotope and a somatostatin-analogue peptide is showing potential as a cancer killer for certain types of tumour. It is being develop...
Read article 'XENON100 sees no evidence of dark-matter interactions with electrons in liquid xenon'
XENON100 sees no evidence of dark-matter interactions with electrons in liquid xenon
Nearly 400 days of data taken by the XENON collaboration were used to look for the telltale signature of dark matter, an event rate that varies periodically over the course of a year. The null re...
Read article 'Borexino finds evidence of neutrinos produced in the Earth’s mantle'
Borexino finds evidence of neutrinos produced in the Earth’s mantle
In July, the Borexino collaboration reported a geoneutrino signal from the Earth’s mantle with 98% C.L. Geoneutrinos are electron antineutrinos produced by β decays of 238U and 232Th c...
Read article 'CALET joins the International Space Station'
CALET joins the International Space Station
After a spectacular launch from the Tanegashima Space Center on 19 August on board the Japanese H2-B rocket operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the CALorimetric Electron Te...
Read article 'An improved measurement of θ13 from Daya Bay'
An improved measurement of θ13 from Daya Bay
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has recently published a new measurement of the disappearance of electron antineutrinos emitted by nuclear reactors. The observation improves the precision of ...
Read article 'Massive black-hole pair is on fast-merger track'
Massive black-hole pair is on fast-merger track
Earlier this year, astronomers discovered what appeared to be a pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) circling towards a collision, which would send out a burst of gravitational waves. A new study ...
Read article 'Zeroing in on Higgs boson properties'
Zeroing in on Higgs boson properties
The combined signal yield relative to the Standard Model expectation is measured to be 1.09±0.11.
Read article 'So, farewell then…'
So, farewell then…
After nearly 13 years as editor of CERN Courier, I am stepping down as I head off into retirement. I would like to thank the many contributors and also the team at IOP Publishing who bring such a prof...
Read article 'STAR tracker snares heavy flavours'
STAR tracker snares heavy flavours
Heavy quarks are important probes of the quark–gluon plasma that is produced when relativistic heavy ions collide. Because of a mass effect, it has been argued that heavy quarks lose less energy thr...
