Read article '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'
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?'
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'
Eleven publishers of high-quality international journals are participating in this initiative.
Read article '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'
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'
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'
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,...
Read article 'A new focus on forward muons for the ALICE upgrade programme'
The ALICE experiment, with its state-of-the-art detection systems, produced a wealth of results during Run 1 of the LHC (2009–2013) – driving a new impetus in the field of heavy-ion collisions. W...
Read article 'LHCb and theorists chart a course for discovery'
Experimenters from LHCb and theorists recently met at CERN to discuss the best ways to obtain the most out of the rich harvest of data from the LHC.
