Read article 'Shedding light on dark matter'
Shedding light on dark matter
Dark matter may constitute 83% of the particles in the universe, but so far there has been no direct observation of its presence in experiments.
Read article 'Shedding light on dark matter'
Read article 'J/Ψ production in high-multiplicity pp collisions'
J/Ψ production in high-multiplicity pp collisions
The J/Ψ meson, a bound state of a charm and an anticharm quark, has always been an important testing ground for quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'NSRRC considers ultrafast X-ray source'
NSRRC considers ultrafast X-ray source
With a view to sustaining a large-scale facility at a time of worldwide economic crisis and soaring energy costs and to provide efficient use of beam time, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research ...
Read article 'GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy'
GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy
A particle accelerator has been successfully coupled to a nuclear reactor for the first time at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre.
Read article 'Steps forward for new long-baseline experiment'
Steps forward for new long-baseline experiment
The collaboration working to design the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in the US has recently made major decisions about the experimental configuration, while the collaboration itself contin...
Read article 'Planck reveals details across the Milky Way'
Planck reveals details across the Milky Way
While awaiting the Planck mission results on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the scientific community must be content with measurements on foreground sources. Those are nevertheless providing i...
Read article 'Cornell sprints past milestones towards hard X-ray source'
Cornell sprints past milestones towards hard X-ray source
Synchrotron X-ray sources have become essential tools across the sciences, medicine and engineering.
Read article 'Results from SPIN@COSY may bode well for RHIC'
Results from SPIN@COSY may bode well for RHIC
These results may help to increase the polarization in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven when it is used as a 250 GeV/c polarized proton collider
Read article 'EXPLORER’s life comes to a fruitful end'
EXPLORER’s life comes to a fruitful end
After 20 years of continuous operation, the EXPLORER gravitational-wave detector has come to the end of its long life as an experiment and left CERN.
Read article 'Experiment recreates ‘seeds’ of the universe’s magnetic fields'
Experiment recreates ‘seeds’ of the universe’s magnetic fields
How did magnetic fields arise in the universe? An experiment using a high-power laser to create plasma instabilities may have glimpsed the processes that created magnetic fields during the period of g...
