Read article 'LHCb sets limits on rare B decays to dimuons'
New particles, in particular those that arise in models with an extended Higgs sector, can augment the decay rates and thus provide signs of new physics.
Read article 'Rare isotope facility is set for 2020'
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Project, which was awarded two years ago to Michigan State University by the US Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) is making significant progres...
Read article 'Upgrade of Nuclotron paves the way for NICA'
The successful completion of the upgrade to the Nuclotron at JINR marks the end of an important first step in the construction of the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility and Multi-Purpose Detector (...
Read article 'Superfluidity at work in neutron star’s core'
The rapid decline in temperature of a young neutron star in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) suggests superfluidity and superconductivity at its core. This conclusion, based on observat...
Read article 'The LHC is to run in 2012'
CERN has announced that the LHC will run through to the end of 2012, with a short technical stop at the end of 2011.
Read article 'Tevatron to shut down after 26 historic years'
The final particles will collide in Fermilab’s Tevatron this September at the end of the machine’s historic 26-year run.
Read article 'CMS studies energy imbalance in jets in heavy-ion collisions'
The CMS experiment has released results of a new study that sheds more light on the phenomenon known as di-jet energy imbalance.
Read article 'CERN launches AIDA project'
The AIDA project (Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators) will develop detector infrastructures for future particle-physics experiments in line with the European Strategy for ...
Read article 'LHCb makes first observations of interesting B0s decays'
Using data collected in proton–proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, the LHCb experiment has observed new rare decay modes.
Read article 'Did Hubble find the most distant galaxy?'
The Hubble Space Telescope has been pushed to its limits to find a galaxy candidate at a record distance of 13.2 thousand million light-years. The tiny, dim object observed by Hubble could be a compac...
