Read article 'CEBAF delivers first beams following upgrade'
On 7 May, the newly upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) delivered the first electron beams to its new experimental complex at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Jeff...
Read article 'Laser experiment simulates supernova'
Supernova explosions, triggered when the fuel within a star reignites or its core collapses, launch a shock wave that sweeps through a few light-years of space in only a few hundred years.
Read article 'First direct high-precision measurement of the proton’s magnetic moment sets the stage for BASE'
A German/Japanese collaboration working at the University of Mainz has performed the first direct high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton – which is by far the most accurate ...
Read article 'ALICE and the flowing particle zoo'
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce large numbers of particles that do not move individually, but rather as an organized group, with a collective motion known as flow. Flow studies at Brookhaven...
Read article 'Higgs and top: a new window on dark matter'
With the discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC two years ago, the last piece of the Standard Model puzzle fell into place. Yet, several mysteries remain, one of which is the enigma of the origin of da...
Read article 'ATLAS finds evidence for the rare electroweak W±W± production'
The Standard Model of particle physics has been extremely successful in predicting a vast variety of phenomena – so successful, that it is easy to forget that some of its predictions have not yet be...
Read article '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...
Read article '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.
Read article '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...
Read article '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...
