Read article 'CERN data centre passes 100 petabytes'
On the same day that the LHC’s first three-year physics run ended, CERN announced that its data centre had recorded more than 100 petabytes (PB) – 100 million gigabytes – of physics data.
Read article 'CP violation proves elusive in the charm sector'
Report of LHCb on CP violation in two decays.
Read article 'TOTEM’s luminosity-independent cross-sections'
The TOTEM collaboration has published the first luminosity-independent measurement of the total proton–proton cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.
Read article 'ATLAS completes precision luminosity measurement'
The success of the procedure for vdM scans at the LHC resulted from close co-operation between the LHC accelerator team and the four large experimental collaborations.
Read article 'Supernova remnants accelerate cosmic rays'
A century after the discovery of cosmic rays, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has gathered strong evidence that protons are, indeed, accelerated to high-energies by supernova remnants (SN...
Read article 'Proton–ion collisions: the final challenge'
In the last beam period before a two-year shutdown, the LHC began 2013 with a challenge: proton–ion collisions.
Read article 'Source of lead ions'
Every so often the source of the lead ions has to be replaced.
Read article 'ALICE and ATLAS find intriguing ‘double ridge’ in proton–lead collisions'
In analysing data from last year’s test run with proton–lead collisions in the LHC, the ALICE collaboration, followed almost immediately and independently by the ATLAS collaboration, have ...
Read article 'First measurements of electroweak boson fusion'
In proton collisions at the LHC, vector boson fusion (VBF) happens when quarks from each one of the two colliding protons radiate W or Z bosons that subsequently interact or "fuse" as in the Feynman d...
Read article 'LHCb pins down X(3872) quantum numbers'
One of the most interesting discoveries of the past decade is that of an unconventional hadron, the X(3872), by the Belle experiment (Belle 2003).
