Read article 'Beam returns for the start of the longest run'
In the early hours of 28 February, beam was circulating again in the LHC at the start of operations that are scheduled to continue for the next 18 to 24 months.
Read article 'ALBA’s booster accelerator in operational test'
The first operational tests of the booster accelerator for the ALBA synchrotron light source in Barcelona took place in January.
Read article 'GSI team first to trap superheavy element'
An international team of researchers at GSI Darmstadt has successfully contained atoms of nobelium (atomic number 102) in an ion trap.
Read article 'STAR finds heaviest antinucleus'
Studies of high-energy collisions of gold ions by the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Brookhaven, have revealed evidence of the most massive antinucleus to date.
Read article 'Super-Kamiokande sees first T2K event'
The international Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) collaboration announced the first detection of a long-distance neutrino in the Super-Kamiokande detector on 24 February.
Read article 'CERN and JINR sign new agreement'
CERN and JINR have a long and successful history of collaboration – the first informal meeting on international co-operation in the field of high-energy accelerators took place at CERN in 1959 – a...
Read article 'Gravitational lensing constrains cosmology'
When two sources at various distances happen to be aligned on the line of sight, the gravitational field of the nearer galaxy distorts the image of the distant galaxy into multiple arc-shaped images (...
Read article 'Romania takes first steps to join CERN'
On 11 February the Romanian minister of education, research, youth and sport, Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, signed an agreement that formally recognizes Romania as ...
Read article 'CERN prepares for long 7 TeV run'
The Chamonix workshop, held on 25–29 January, once again proved its worth as a place where all of the stakeholders in the LHC can come together, take difficult decisions and reach a consensus on im...
Read article 'CDF and DØ joint paper puts a further squeeze on the Higgs'
Almost a decade after the experiments at CERN’s Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider set a limit on the mass of the Higgs boson of 114.4 GeV/c2, the two experiments at Fermilab’s Tevatron, CD...
