Read article 'Celebrations, challenges and business as usual'
Champagne corks popped on 13 September as the LHC confirmed its potential as a multipurpose machine and successfully switched to a new running mode with proton–ion collisions.
Read article 'Peer-reviewed particle physics for all'
A new initiative to provide open access to peer-reviewed particle physics research literature was launched at CERN on 1 October by the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Phy...
Read article 'TOTEM extends study of elastic scattering'
A year after publishing first results on proton–proton elastic scattering at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC, the TOTEM collaboration now has new measurements based on the analysis of d...
Read article 'Large CP-violation effects appear in three-body B decays'
One of the interesting ways to search for CP violation in B-meson decays is by using three-body decays of charged B mesons.
Read article 'Successful test of proton–ion collisions in LHCb'
Unlike the other three large experiments at the LHC, LHCb did not participate in heavy-ion runs in 2010 and 2011.
Read article 'Using the LHC as a photon collider'
The protons and nuclei accelerated by the LHC are surrounded by strong electric and magnetic fields. These fields can be treated as an equivalent flux of photons, making the LHC the world’s most pow...
Read article 'ALICE takes a first look at diffraction'
Diffractive processes represent more than 25% of the cross-section for inelastic proton–proton collisions at the LHC. So, it is only natural that the ALICE collaboration is interested in a field...
Read article 'Top-quark production gets a boost'
With the expected energy upgrade of the LHC the frequency of boosted final states will increase and even more sophisticated methods will be needed to search for physics beyond the Standard Model
Read article 'Updating the strategy for particle physics'
On 10–12 September, some 500 physicists attended an open symposium in Krakow for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics, which was adopted by CERN Council in 2006.
Read article 'Theorists calculate the route to carbon-12'
The triple-alpha reaction rate that produces carbon-12 in stars and other energetic astronomical phenomena has been a tricky subject for nuclear theorists for some time.
