Read article 'Colliders unite in the Linear Collider Collaboration'
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) and the International Linear Collider (ILC) – two studies for next-generation projects to complement the LHC – now belong to the same organization.
Read article 'LHC: access required, time estimate about two years'
When the LHC and injector beams stopped on 16 February, the following words appeared on LHC Page 1: "No beam for a while. Access required: Time estimate ˜2 years".
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 ...
