Read article 'Stable beams at 13 TeV'
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.
Read article 'Stable beams at 13 TeV'
Read article 'Fifth event signals discovery of ντ appearance'
Fifth event signals discovery of ντ appearance
Setting out from CERN as a muon neutrino, the particle was detected at Gran Sasso as a ντ after travelling 730 km through the Earth.
Read article 'HL-LHC begins the move from paper to hardware'
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.
Read article 'Korean Tier-1 link upgrades to 10 Gbps'
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.
Read article 'STAR helps to pin down a key phenomenon in gold collisions'
STAR helps to pin down a key phenomenon in gold collisions
The Brookhaven National Laboratory has published new evidence indicative of a "chiral magnetic wave" rippling through quark–gluon plasma.
Read article 'B̅0 decay reveals an intriguing anomaly'
B̅0 decay reveals an intriguing anomaly
The LHCb collaboration presented the first measurement of any B → τX decay at a hadron collider
Read article 'LHCb observes top production in the forward region'
LHCb observes top production in the forward region
Measurements of the forward production of top-quark pairs can be used to constrain the gluon parton distribution function.
Read article 'On the trail of long-lived particles'
On the trail of long-lived particles
When searching for new particles in ATLAS, it is often assumed that they will either decay to observable Standard Model particles at the centre of the detector, or escape undetected, in which case the...
Read article 'CMS and the continuing quest to unveil dark matter'
CMS and the continuing quest to unveil dark matter
The search for particles that could constitute dark matter in the universe relies on detecting their interplay with the Standard Model particles through a three-pronged approach: via direct-detection ...
Read article 'EuroCirCol: a key to new physics'
EuroCirCol: a key to new physics
EuroCirCol, the EC-funded part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study that will develop the conceptual design of an energy-frontier hadron collider, officially started on 1 June. The “kick...
