Read article 'A diamond planet is found around a pulsar'
“Remember when you were young, you shone like the Sun”, opens the famous song Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Written as a tribute to Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s lead musician until 1975, ...
Read article 'EPS-HEP 2011: the harvest begins'
Impressive results, and so much more to come: this is the general feeling that more than 800 participants took home from the International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, EPS-HEP 2011,...
Read article 'LHC passes 2 fb–1'
The LHC is enjoying a confluence of twos.
Read article 'MINOS and T2K glimpse electron-neutrinos'
The T2K and MINOS experiments have reported results from their searches for the appearance of electron-neutrinos in beams of muon-neutrinos produced at distant locations.
Read article 'ALICE goes in search of charmonium in the quark–gluon plasma'
The results, presented at the Quark Matter 2011 conference (Heavy ions in Annecy), hint at the recombination of charm and anticharm quarks in the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisi...
Read article 'ASACUSA measures antiproton mass with unprecedented accuracy'
he Japanese-European ASACUSA experiment at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator (AD) has reported a new measurement of the antiproton’s mass, accurate to about one part in a thousand million.
Read article 'COSY finds evidence for an exotic particle…'
Experiments at the Jülich Cooler Synchrotron, COSY, have found evidence for a new complex state in the two-baryon system, with mass 2.37 GeV and width 70 MeV.
Read article 'CDF discovers a heavy relative of the neutron'
The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has announced the observation of the Ξ0b, the latest entry in the periodic table of baryons.
Read article 'ELENA prepares a bright future for antimatter research'
At its recent session in June, the CERN Council approved the construction of the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA) – an upgrade of the existing Antiproton Decelerator (AD).
Read article 'ILC Global Design Effort publishes milestone report'
As its title suggests, the 162-page report represents the current status of the global R&D that is currently co-ordinated by the GDE.
