Read article '‘Supernova of a generation’ reveals its nature'
Astronomers have put under scrutiny the brightest and closest stellar explosion seen in the past 25 years. They have identified the supernova in the Pinwheel galaxy observed on 24 August 201...
Read article 'A bumper year nears its end'
For the second year running, the LHC team has largely surpassed its operational objectives, steadily increasing the rate at which the LHC has delivered data to the experiments.
Read article 'Help us make CERN Courier even better!'
In this article from 2011 the CERN Courier asks its readers to give ideas to improve the magazine.
Read article 'Innovative camera records cosmic rays during full moon'
On the night of 11–12 October, just a few hours after installation of its camera, the First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) recorded flashes of Cherenkov light from air showers induced by cosmic r...
Read article 'LHCb looks to the future'
Even though the physics harvest is now in full flow, the collaboration is already planning for the eventual upgrade of the experiment, which is scheduled to be ready for data-taking in 2019.
Read article 'ALICE measures multi-strange baryons'
The ALICE collaboration has measured the production of baryons containing two or three strange quarks in lead–lead collisions at the LHC, at an energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair, nearly 14 times...
Read article 'SUSY: the search continues'
Supersymmetry (SUSY) is still one of the strong candidates for physics beyond the Standard Model that could be detected in proton–proton collisions at the LHC.
Read article 'Dileptons: a window on force unification and extra-dimensions'
The ATLAS Collaboration has published its latest search for neutral resonances decaying to pairs of leptons, either electrons or muons.
Read article 'Scalar field could unlock supernova mystery'
A new component of gravity, the scalar gravitational field, may explain the mechanism that allows the immense explosions of type II supernovae to take place.
Read article 'VERITAS detects Crab pulsations at very high energies'
The Crab nebula is the brightest persistent gamma-ray source in the sky with radiation detected up to very high energies (VHE), above 100 GeV. The surprising result of the Very Energetic Radiatio...
