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New results from ATLAS at Quark Matter 2014

At the Quark Matter 2014 conference, held in Darmstadt on 19–25 May, ATLAS presented a variety of new results based on lead–lead (PbPb) and proton–lead (pPb) data collected during Run 1 of the...

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US particle-physics community sets research priorities

In May, an advisory panel to federal funding agencies in the US approved a proposed plan for the future of the country’s particle physics.

OECD report praises innovation at CERN

In early June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published their Global Science Forum (GSF) report, “The Impacts of Large Research Infrastructures on Economic Inn...

Do X-rays reveal a sterile neutrino?

A detailed study of galaxy clusters using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton has found a mysterious X-ray signal. One intriguing possibility is that the X-rays are produ...

LS1: reawakening the accelerators

CERN’s accelerator complex is gradually restarting, more than a year after the start of the first long shutdown (LS1). On 4 April, a team switched on the proton source and a week later re-c...

CLOUD sees through the haze

The CLOUD (Cosmic Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) experiment at CERN, which is studying whether cosmic rays have a climatically significant effect on aerosols and clouds, is also tackling one of the most ch...

Quark Matter 2014: news from ALICE

The new results shown by the ALICE collaboration at the Quark Matter 2014 conference in Darmstadt focus principally on the most recent collisions at the LHC – those of protons and lead nuclei (p...

Quark Matter 2014: news from CMS

Although the CMS experiment was designed primarily for precise measurements in proton–proton (pp) collisions, in recent years it has demonstrated exceptional capabilities in studying interactions of...

On the trail of exotic particles

Since the quark model was first conceived 50 years ago, physicists have been searching for "exotic" hadrons – strongly interacting particles that are neither quark–antiquark pairs (mesons) nor th...