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ALICE and the charm of heavy-ion collisions

This is the first time that D meson suppression has been measured directly in central nucleus–nucleus collisions.

CMS observes Y suppression in lead–lead collisions

The heavy-ion collision data collected in November 2010 at the LHC continue to provide exciting new physics results.

LHCb closes in on B_s oscillations

In analysing data from the 2010 running of the LHC, the LHCb collaboration has made some important measurements of the oscillation properties of Bs mesons.

SuperB Factory set to be built at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’

The SuperB project involves the construction underground of a new asymmetric high-luminosity electron–positron collider.

SACLA laser sets new record

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 0.12 nm.

EuCARD reviews progress at annual meeting

The second annual meeting of the European Co-ordination for Accelerator Research and Development (EuCARD) project took place on 11–13 May at the headquarters of the Centre National de Recherche Sci...

New European novel accelerator network formed

The European Network for Novel Accelerators (EuroNNAc) was formally launched at a workshop held at CERN on 3–6 May as part of the EuCARD project.

NSRRC commissions linac system for new photon source

The Taiwan Photon Source will be equipped with a 3GeV electron accelerator.

Swift witnesses a black hole devouring a star

Follow-up observations of an apparently normal gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by NASA’s Swift satellite have identified the event as a star being ripped apart by a massive black hole in a distan...