Read article 'NUCLEON takes its place in space'
NUCLEON takes its place in space
On 13 January, less than three weeks after being launched into space, the NUCLEON satellite experiment was switched on to collect its first cosmic-ray events.
Read article 'NUCLEON takes its place in space'
Read article 'LHCb gets a precise handle on sin 2β'
LHCb gets a precise handle on sin 2β
In the first week of March, at Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste, La Thuile, the LHCb collaboration announced a precision measurement of CP (charge/parity) violation.
Read article 'ATLAS sets limits on anomalous quartic-gauge couplings'
ATLAS sets limits on anomalous quartic-gauge couplings
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are now looking into deeper levels of Standard Model predictions by probing additional ways in which the gauge bosons interact with each other.
Read article 'CMS prepares to search for heavy top-quark partners in Run 2'
CMS prepares to search for heavy top-quark partners in Run 2
A variety of theories beyond the Standard Model attempt to address the hierarchy problem.
Read article 'Proto-collaboration formed to promote Hyper-Kamiokande'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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...
