Read article 'CERN’s 60th anniversary'
CERN’s 60th anniversary
On 29 September, it will be 60 years since CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research – came into being as the first scientific pan-European endeavour.
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Read article 'IceCube finds evidence for high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos'
IceCube finds evidence for high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos
The IceCube collaboration has reported evidence, at the 4σ level, for a diffuse (i.e. isotropic) flux of high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos, mostly above 60 TeV.
Read article 'First negative-hydrogen-ion beam accelerated at Linac4'
First negative-hydrogen-ion beam accelerated at Linac4
On 14 November, a beam of negative hydrogen ions was successfully accelerated for the first time to 3 MeV in Linac4.
Read article 'ATLAS and CMS observe Higgs-boson decays to fermions'
ATLAS and CMS observe Higgs-boson decays to fermions
Last year, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations confirmed that the new boson found in 2012 was indeed a Higgs boson with a mass around 125 GeV.
Read article 'How long can beauty and charm live together?'
How long can beauty and charm live together?
The LHCb collaboration has recently made the world’s most precise measurement of the lifetime of a meson that has both beauty and charm.
Read article 'SCOAP3 open-access initiative gets going'
SCOAP3 open-access initiative gets going
Eleven publishers of high-quality international journals are participating in this initiative.
Read article 'HiLumi LHC design study moves towards HL-LHC'
HiLumi LHC design study moves towards HL-LHC
When the CERN Council approved the updated European Strategy for Particle Physics at a special meeting in Brussels last May, it recognized the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project as the top priority ...
Read article 'New charged charmonium-like states observed at BESIII'
New charged charmonium-like states observed at BESIII
In studies at the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII), the international team that operates the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) experiment has found evidence for a family of what could well be...
Read article 'Black-hole jets contain heavy nuclei'
Black-hole jets contain heavy nuclei
One of the open questions of astrophysics is the composition of the powerful jets launched by black holes. Are the jets purely leptonic or do they also contain protons and nuclei? The latter are impli...
Read article '2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Englert and Higgs'
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Englert and Higgs
Champagne corks popped at CERN on 8 October, to celebrate the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to François Englert, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and Peter Higgs,...
