Read article 'Raman amplification could boost plasma-based acceleration'
Researchers using the first large-scale particle-in-cell simulations have found that Raman amplification of laser beams in a plasma can produce multi-petawatt peak powers – albeit in a definite para...
Read article 'The global linear collider comes together in Geneva'
The International Workshop on Linear Colliders (IWLC2010) recently brought together many experts involved in research and development for an electron–positron linear collider – the favoured future...
Read article 'SuperB project reports progress'
After publishing the CDR report, the SuperB collaboration is taking its next steps.
Read article 'CMS measures the top cross-section at 7 TeV'
The CMS experiment at CERN recently published first measurements of the cross-section for top-antitop pair production at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.
Read article 'Massive neutron star can’t be exotic matter'
The most precise determination yet of the mass of a heavy neutron star in a binary system has important implications on its matter content. With a mass twice that of the Sun, the millisecond-pulsar J1...
Read article 'The window opens on physics at 7 TeV'
After almost six months of operation in a new energy region, the experiments at the LHC are yielding papers on physics at 7 TeV in the centre-of-mass. They include results aired at the International ...
Read article 'Council approves the Medium Term Plan'
During an intense series of meetings, which concluded on 17 September, the CERN Council overwhelmingly approved the laboratory's revised Medium Term Plan for the period 2011 to 2015.
Read article 'Georges Charpak 1924–2010'
Many people around the world, not only particle physicists, were deeply saddened to learn that Georges Charpak passed away on 29 September.
Read article 'Graphene gathers Nobel Prize'
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 has been awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both of the University of Manchester, for their "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional m...
Read article 'European XFEL project passes milestones'
On 3 September, the tunnel-boring machine TULA – for TUnnel for Laser – broke through the wall of its reception shaft to complete the first 480 m of the tunnel system for the European XFEL proje...
