Read article 'Higgs and top: a new window on dark matter'
With the discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC two years ago, the last piece of the Standard Model puzzle fell into place. Yet, several mysteries remain, one of which is the enigma of the origin of da...
Read article 'ATLAS finds evidence for the rare electroweak W±W± production'
The Standard Model of particle physics has been extremely successful in predicting a vast variety of phenomena – so successful, that it is easy to forget that some of its predictions have not yet be...
Read article 'New results from ATLAS at Quark Matter 2014'
At the Quark Matter 2014 conference, held in Darmstadt on 19–25 May, ATLAS presented a variety of new results based on lead–lead (PbPb) and proton–lead (pPb) data collected during Run 1 of the...
Read article 'US particle-physics community sets research priorities'
In May, an advisory panel to federal funding agencies in the US approved a proposed plan for the future of the country’s particle physics.
Read article 'OECD report praises innovation at CERN'
In early June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published their Global Science Forum (GSF) report, “The Impacts of Large Research Infrastructures on Economic Inn...
Read article 'Do X-rays reveal a sterile neutrino?'
A detailed study of galaxy clusters using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton has found a mysterious X-ray signal. One intriguing possibility is that the X-rays are produ...
Read article 'LS1: reawakening the accelerators'
CERN’s accelerator complex is gradually restarting, more than a year after the start of the first long shutdown (LS1). On 4 April, a team switched on the proton source and a week later re-c...
Read article 'CLOUD sees through the haze'
The CLOUD (Cosmic Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) experiment at CERN, which is studying whether cosmic rays have a climatically significant effect on aerosols and clouds, is also tackling one of the most ch...
Read article 'Quark Matter 2014: news from ALICE'
The new results shown by the ALICE collaboration at the Quark Matter 2014 conference in Darmstadt focus principally on the most recent collisions at the LHC – those of protons and lead nuclei (p...
Read article 'Quark Matter 2014: news from CMS'
Although the CMS experiment was designed primarily for precise measurements in proton–proton (pp) collisions, in recent years it has demonstrated exceptional capabilities in studying interactions of...
