Read article 'CERN to admit Israel as first new member state since 1999'
Following a resolution unanimously adopted at the 169th session of the CERN Council on 12 December, CERN is set to admit Israel as the organization’s 21st member state.
Read article 'CERN’s 60th anniversary'
On 29 September, it will be 60 years since CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research – came into being as the first scientific pan-European endeavour.
Read article 'IceCube finds evidence for high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos'
The IceCube collaboration has reported evidence, at the 4σ level, for a diffuse (i.e. isotropic) flux of high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos, mostly above 60 TeV.
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...
