Read article 'First beam in Linac4 DTL'
Work progresses on Linac4, the linear accelerator foreseen to take over from the current Linac2 as injector to the PS Booster. On 5 August, the first drift-tube linac (DTL) tank saw beams at 12 MeV
Read article 'Budker Institute’s booster gets going at Brookhaven'
The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) is currently being commissioned at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Read article 'ALFA in ATLAS measures pp cross-section with high precision'
Data from a special run of the LHC using dedicated beam optics at 7 TeV have been analysed to measure the total cross-section of proton–proton collisions in ATLAS.
Read article 'ATLAS provides further insights into the Higgs boson'
The discovery of a Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations in 2012 marked a new era in particle physics.
Read article 'A bright future for dark-matter searches'
The US Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics and the National Science Foundation Physics Division have announced their joint programme for second-generation dark-matter experiments, aimin...
Read article 'INTEGRAL catches radioactivity of a supernova'
ESA’s INTEGRAL satellite has detected gamma-ray lines from the radioactive decay of nickel and cobalt in a nearby supernova of type Ia. This unprecedented result confirms that the intense l...
Read article 'Countdown to physics'
Following the restart of the first elements in CERN’s accelerator complex in June, beams are now being delivered to experiments from the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and the PS Booster.
Read article 'Precise measurements of top-quark production'
The top quark is the heaviest-known fundamental particle, whose mass of about 173 GeV is much larger than that of the other quarks, and comparable to those of the W, Z and Higgs bosons.
Read article 'CMS releases final Run 1 results on H → γγ'
The CMS collaboration achieved an important milestone this summer with completion of the analysis of the last of the five main channels that contributed to the discovery of a Higgs boson in July 2012.
Read article 'The 1-2-3 of Ds meson spectroscopy'
This is the first time that a heavy flavoured spin-3 particle has been observed, and it should lead to new insights into hadron spectroscopy.
