Read article 'LS1: first missions accomplished'
LS1: first missions accomplished
Work during the current long shutdown (LS1) of CERN's accelerator complex is making good progress since starting in February this year.
Read article 'LS1: first missions accomplished'
Read article 'Fermilab’s accelerators start up after long shutdown'
Fermilab’s accelerators start up after long shutdown
After more than a year of upgrades, Fermilab's revamped accelerator complex is ready to send beam to its suite of fixed-target experiments, which now includes the new NOvA neutrino detector in norther...
Read article 'New high-precision constraints on charm CP violation'
New high-precision constraints on charm CP violation
There are four neutral mesons that allow particle–antiparticle transitions – mixing – and so make ideal laboratories for studies of matter–antimatter asymmetries (CP violation).
Read article 'Daya Bay releases new results'
Daya Bay releases new results
The international Daya Bay collaboration has announced new results, including their first data on how neutrino oscillations vary with neutrino energy, which allows them to measure mass splitting betwe...
Read article 'ILC candidate site in Japan announced'
ILC candidate site in Japan announced
In a press conference held at the University of Tokyo on 23 August, the committee recommended the Kitakami mountains in the Iwate and Miyagi prefectures as the preferred location.
Read article 'Hyper Suprime-Cam offers new view on universe'
Hyper Suprime-Cam offers new view on universe
A stunning image of the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31) captured by the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) has demonstrated the instrument's capability of fulfilling the goal to use the ground-b...
Read article 'Kilonova solves the short GRB puzzle'
Kilonova solves the short GRB puzzle
Follow-up observations of a recent short-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) provide the strongest evidence yet that these elusive bursts result from the merger of two neutron stars. The evidence is in the...
Read article 'Do fast radio bursts signal black-hole formation?'
Do fast radio bursts signal black-hole formation?
Astronomers using the 64-m Parkes radio telescope in Australia have detected radio transients with a duration of only 4 ms. These fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a recently discovered class of myste...
Read article 'Surprising studies in multiplicity'
Surprising studies in multiplicity
One of the key ways of looking into what happens when high-energy hadrons collide is to measure the relationship between the number, or multiplicity, of particles produced and their momentum transvers...
Read article 'Charmless baryonic B decays'
Charmless baryonic B decays
The LHCb collaboration has made the first sightings of the decay of B mesons into two baryons containing no charm quarks.
