Read article 'New instrument sees intergalactic filaments'
A team of US astronomers has taken unprecedented images of the intergalactic medium (IGM) – the diffuse gas that connects galaxies throughout the universe. These first pictures of the IGM were o...
Read article 'LHC and Tevatron teams announce first joint result'
The collaborations working on the world’s leading particle-collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider and CE...
Read article 'CERN and ESA sign co-operation agreement'
On 28 March, CERN and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a framework agreement for future co-operation on research and technology in areas of mutual interest
Read article 'CMS sets new constraints on the width of the Higgs boson'
After the discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012, all of the measurements of its properties and tests of its spin-parity have proved to be consistent with the predictions of the Standard Model.
Read article 'LHCb’s results become more precise'
At the 2014 Rencontres de Moriond conference in March, the collaboration presented more precise results from a number of different analyses.
Read article 'ATLAS uses t → qH decays to pin down the Higgs'
Since the observation of a Higgs boson at a mass around 125.5 GeV by ATLAS and CMS in July 2012, both collaborations are making every effort to pin it down and decide if it is indeed the Higgs boson ...
Read article 'LHCf investigates proton–lead collisions'
The final run of the LHC in January 2013 prior to the start of the current long shutdown provided collisions between a beam of protons and a beam of lead ions, allowing the LHCf experiment to make fur...
Read article 'OPERA sees a fourth τ neutrino'
e OPERA experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory has detected a fourth example of neutrino oscillation, with a muon neutrino produced at CERN detected as a τ neutrino after travelling a distance ...
Read article 'BICEP2 finds evidence of cosmic inflation'
The news came as a surprise on 17 March, making a “big bang” in the physics community. Within hours of the announcement, physicists around the world had become aware of the existence ...
Read article 'LS1: on the home straight'
When the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC on 14 February last year, it marked the beginning of the first long shutdown, LS1, not only for the LHC but for all of ...
