Read article 'Proto-collaboration formed to promote Hyper-Kamiokande'
The Inaugural Symposium of the Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration, took place in Kashiwa, Japan, on 31 January, attended by more than 100 researchers.
Read article 'Planck reveals no evidence of new physics'
The release of the full mission data of ESA’s Planck spacecraft is a milestone for cosmology. Despite the high quality of the data – including, for the first time, polarization observation...
Read article 'COMPASS measures the pion polarizability'
The COMPASS experiment at CERN has made the first precise measurement of the polarizability of the pion – the lightest composite particle built from quarks.
Read article 'The International Year of Light'
To celebrate the IYL 2015, this issue of CERN Courier looks at how brilliant, accelerator-based X-ray free-electron lasers are enabling exciting new studies in biology among other topics.
Read article 'Holding the key to LHC Run 2'
On 12 January, the key to the LHC was symbolically handed back to the operations team.
Read article 'Detection techniques for future neutrino observatories'
The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos initially announced by IceCube in 2013 provided an added boost to the planning for new, larger facilities that could study the signal in detail and...
Read article 'CMS heads towards solving a decades-long quarkonium puzzle'
Quarkonia – charm or beauty quark/antiquark bound states – are prototypes of elementary systems governed by the strong force.
Read article 'ALICE sheds light on particle production in heavy-ion collisions'
New results from the ALICE collaboration are providing additional data to test ideas about how particles are produced out of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions at the L...
Read article 'ATLAS gives new limits in the search for dark matter'
There is evidence for dark matter from many astronomical observations, yet so far, dark matter has not been seen in particle-physics experiments, and there is no evidence for non-gravitational interac...
Read article 'Ground breaking for China’s new neutrino observatory'
On 10 January, the ground-breaking ceremony for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) took place in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China. More than 300 scientists and officials fr...
