Read article 'Antihydrogen scoops award for breakthroughs'
Both ALPHA and ASACUSA aim to measure precisely the spectrum of antihydrogen and compare it with that of hydrogen. Any small difference would cast light on the imbalance between matter and antimatter ...
Read article 'Italian government approves SuperB'
The SuperB project has been announced as one of the "flagship projects" in Italy.
Read article 'FAIR agreement'
On 18 November 2010, CERN signed an agreement with the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) GmbH, the company that is co-ordinating the construction of the accelerator and experiment facil...
Read article 'Fermi sees giant bubbles in the Milky Way'
The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has detected high-energy emission from two giant lobes on both sides of the plane of the Galaxy. This unexpected finding suggests that the Milky Way was more active...
Read article 'LHC begins physics with lead ions'
Four days is all that it took for the LHC operations team at CERN to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC.
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...
