Read article 'HESS sees a powerful trio in a nearby galaxy'
High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) has discovered three extremely luminous gamma-ray sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way about 170,000 li...
Read article 'The LHC gears up for season 2'
As the re-starting of the LHC approaches, teams at CERN continue their preparations.
Read article 'Pakistan to become associate member state of CERN'
On 19 December, CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, and the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Ansar Parvez, signed in Islamabad the agreement admitting the Islamic Republic of Pak...
Read article 'CERN-JINR reciprocal observers'
During its December meeting, Council also welcomed the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR, for the first time as an observer to Council, as part of a reciprocal arrangement that also sees CERN...
Read article 'LHCf detectors are back in the LHC tunnel'
The Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment measures neutral particles emitted around zero degrees of the hadron interactions at the LHC.
Read article 'Narrowing down the ‘stealth stop’ gap with ATLAS'
In late 2011, ATLAS launched a dedicated programme targeting searches for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark – the scalar top, or "stop" – which could be pair-produced in high-energy prot...
Read article 'CMS measures the ‘underlying event’ in pp collisions'
Ever since the earliest experiments with hadron beams, and subsequently during the era of the hadron colliders heralded by CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings, it has been clear that hadron collisions...
Read article 'LHCb observes two new strange-beauty baryons'
Predicted to exist by the quark model, they are both baryons containing three quarks, in this case, b, s and d.
Read article 'Profiling jets with ALICE'
Scaled pT spectra of charged particles in jets for different bins of jet transverse momentum. “Jets are collimated sprays of particles.” This ubiquitous characterization used in man...
Read article 'Two teams take big steps forward in plasma acceleration'
The high electric-field gradients that can be set up in plasma have offered the promise of compact particle accelerators since the late 1970s.
