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.
Read article 'TOTEM continues to pin down physics in the very forward region'
The TOTEM collaboration has made the first measurement of the double diffractive cross-section in the very forward region at the LHC, in a range in pseudorapidity where it has never been measured befo...
Read article 'First results from LUX on dark matter'
The collaboration that built and runs the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, operating in the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory, has released its first results in the search for weakly in...
Read article 'Light echoes reveal black hole’s violent past'
Researchers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence that the normally dim region close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way flared up with at least tw...
Read article 'Neutrinos head off again to Minnesota'
In August, after a 16-month shutdown, Fermilab resumed operation of its Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline and sent the first muon neutrinos to three neutrino experiments: MINERvA, MINOS+ ...
Read article 'Breaking news: The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics'
François Englert, left, and Peter W Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass ...
Read article 'CLOUD shines new light on aerosol formation in atmosphere'
The CLOUD 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 challenging and long-standing proble...
