Read article 'MicroBooNE detector is moved into place'
The particle detector for MicroBooNE, a new short-baseline neutrino experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, was gently lowered into place on 23 June. It is expected to detect its first n...
Read article 'Global strategies for particle physics'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) has issued a statement that endorses the strategic plans for the future of high-energy physics in Europe, Asia and the US.
Read article 'Study hints at cosmic-ray ‘hotspot’'
The distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) recorded by the Telescope Array (TA) in the northern sky is displaying an intriguing “hotspot” in the direction of the Ursa Major ...
Read article 'LS1: beams are back in the Proton Synchrotron'
Beams of protons are back in CERN’s Proton Synchrotron (PS), having circulated around the accelerator on 20 June for the first time in more than 15 months.
Read article 'ALPHA measures charge of antihydrogen'
ALPHAfound it to be compatible with zero to eight decimal places.
Read article 'COSY confirms existence of six-quark states'
Experiments at the Jülich Cooler Synchrotron (COSY) have found compelling evidence for a new state in the two-baryon system, with a mass of 2380 MeV and width of 80 MeV
Read article 'CEBAF delivers first beams following upgrade'
On 7 May, the newly upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) delivered the first electron beams to its new experimental complex at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Jeff...
Read article 'Laser experiment simulates supernova'
Supernova explosions, triggered when the fuel within a star reignites or its core collapses, launch a shock wave that sweeps through a few light-years of space in only a few hundred years.
Read article 'First direct high-precision measurement of the proton’s magnetic moment sets the stage for BASE'
A German/Japanese collaboration working at the University of Mainz has performed the first direct high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton – which is by far the most accurate ...
Read article 'ALICE and the flowing particle zoo'
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce large numbers of particles that do not move individually, but rather as an organized group, with a collective motion known as flow. Flow studies at Brookhaven...
