Read article 'Copernicium enters the periodic table'
On 12 July, a ceremony at GSI celebrated the entry of copernicium into the periodic table of elements with a symbolic christening for the new element.
Read article 'Multibunch injection provides a quick fill'
Beam commissioning at the LHC continues to result in increasing luminosity for the experiments.
Read article 'TOTEM sees elastic scattering and LHCf completes first run'
While the large experiments at the LHC have been collecting the first inverse picobarn of integrated luminosity at 7 TeV in the centre of mass, the two smaller experiments installed at the collider h...
Read article 'Herschel delivers first results'
The first scientific results obtained by the Herschel infrared observatory have been published in a special issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Based on data collected during the first ...
Read article 'OPERA catches its first tau-neutrino'
The OPERA collaboration has announced the observation of the first candidate tau-neutrino in the muon-neutrino beam sent through the Earth from CERN to the INFN's Gran Sasso Laboratory 730 km away.
Read article 'DØ sees anomalous asymmetry in decays of B mesons'
The DØ collaboration at Fermilab has reported evidence of a violation of matter–antimatter symmetry ("CP symmetry") in the behaviour of neutral mesons containing b quarks.
Read article 'CERN Council opens the door to greater integration'
At its 155th session, on 18 June, the CERN Council opened the door to greater integration in particle physics when it unanimously adopted the recommendations of a working group that was set up in 200...
Read article 'Further commissioning improves luminosity'
Report of the LHC progress towards delivering collisions at bigger luminosities.
Read article 'First LHC results aired in Hamburg'
"Physics at the LHC 2010", which took place at DESY in Hamburg on 7–12 June, was the first large conference to discuss 7 TeV collision data from the LHC.
Read article 'Two-orbit energy recovery linac operates at Novosibirsk free-electron laser facility'
Over the past 30 years, the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk has developed many free-electron lasers (FELs).
