Read article 'DESY inaugurates prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array'
The first prototype telescope for the planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has been inaugurated in Berlin.
Read article 'Galaxy clusters shed new light on dark matter'
What is the actual distribution of dark matter? Does it follow the expectations for cold dark matter (CDM)? “Yes, it does,” according to a team of astronomers that has measured the average...
Read article 'Are some atomic nuclei pear shaped?'
Most atomic nuclei that exist naturally are not spherical but have the shape of a rugby ball.
Read article 'ALPHA presents novel investigation of the effect of gravity on antimatter'
The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has made the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity. The ALPHA experiment was the first to trap atoms of antihydrogen, held in place with a stro...
Read article 'CMS hunts for low-mass dark matter'
Astronomical observations – such as the rotation velocities of galaxies and gravitational lensing – show that more than 80% of the matter in the universe remains invisible.
Read article 'CP violation observed in the decays of B0s mesons'
In March 2012, the LHCb collaboration reported an observation of CP violation in charged B-meson decays.
Read article 'First jet measurements with ALICE'
When quarks and gluons (partons) in opposing beams at high-energy hadron colliders meet they can scatter violently to produce correlated showers of particles, or “jets”. In proton–pr...
Read article 'Luminosity-independent measurement of the proton–proton total cross-section at 8 TeV'
The TOTEM collaboration has published the first luminosity-independent measurement at the LHC of the total proton–proton cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV.
Read article 'NOvA detector records first 3D tracks'
The NOvA neutrino detector that is currently under construction in northern Minnesota has recorded its first 3D images of particle tracks.
Read article 'VELA: the small accelerator with a big potential'
A new particle accelerator in the UK has achieved a significant electron acceleration milestone.
