Read article 'AEgIS installation completed'
AEgIS installation completed
Despite first being described over three centuries ago, gravity remains one of the least understood of the fundamental forces.
Read article 'AEgIS installation completed'
Read article 'Pulsar exhibits puzzling switches in state'
Pulsar exhibits puzzling switches in state
Astronomers have detected simultaneous X-ray and radio-mode switches in co-ordinated observations of a pulsar. Pulsed X-ray emission is only present in states of weak radio emission. This indicates a ...
Read article 'Marking the end of the first proton run'
Marking the end of the first proton run
At 6 a.m. on 17 December, operators ended the LHC’s first three-year-long run for proton physics with a new performance milestone. In the preceding days, the space between proton bunches had been ...
Read article 'CERN becomes UN observer'
CERN becomes UN observer
On 14 December, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to allow CERN to participate in the work of the General Assembly and to attend its sessions as an observer.
Read article 'BOSS gives clearer view of baryon oscillations'
BOSS gives clearer view of baryon oscillations
In November the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) released its second major result of 2012, using 48,000 quasars with redshifts (z) up to 3.5 as backlights to map intergalactic hydrogen ...
Read article 'Europe launches consortium for astroparticle physics'
Europe launches consortium for astroparticle physics
At the end of November, European funding agencies for astroparticle physics launched a new sustainable entity, the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium.
Read article 'ATLAS enlists monojets in search for new physics'
ATLAS enlists monojets in search for new physics
Events with a single jet of particles in the final state have traditionally been studied in the context of searches for supersymmetry, for large extra spatial dimensions and for candidates for dark ma...
Read article 'Bs → μμ seen after being sought for decades'
Bs → μμ seen after being sought for decades
It has taken decades of hunting but finally the first evidence for one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature, the decay of a Bs (composed of a beauty antiquark and a strange quark) into tw...
Read article 'Mysterious long-range correlations seen in pPb collisions'
Mysterious long-range correlations seen in pPb collisions
The CMS collaboration has published its first result on proton–lead (pPb) collisions, related to the observation of a phenomenon that was seen first in nucleus–nucleus collisions but also detected...
Read article 'New boson’s mirror image looks like the Higgs'
New boson’s mirror image looks like the Higgs
More than 20 years ago, the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC embarked on a long road into the unknown and, rather like Christopher Columbus, the two collaborations reached a new land last summer....
