Read article 'Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer'
The Japan Lattice QCD Collaboration has used numerical simulations to reproduce spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (SCSB) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'Bent silicon crystal deflects 400 GeV proton beam at the Super Proton Synchrotron'
A team working at CERN has detected the phenomenon of volume reflection using bent silicon crystals with a 400 GeV proton beam at the Super Proton Synchrotron. The efficiency achieved was greater th...
Read article 'THEMIS spacecraft take thin-contact silicon into orbit'
Particle detectors developed for high-energy and nuclear physics often find uses in many other fields. Now silicon detectors with thin entrance contacts have been launched into space aboard the five s...
Read article 'The last module of LHCb’s VELO arrives'
After 10 years of hard work the last of the 42 modules for the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) arrived at CERN in early March.
Read article 'The Inner Tracking System arrives at the heart of ALICE'
On 15 March 100 physicists and engineers gathered in the ALICE underground cavern to witness the end of a 15 year journey of development, construction, commissioning and testing before the Inner Tr...
Read article 'CMS celebrates the arrival of the last crystals'
The last of the 62,960 lead tungstate crystals arrived at CERN on 9 March, marking the end of a 15 year project for the CMS experiment and the Crystal Clear Collaboration.
Read article 'The last dipole makes its descent'
On 26 April, the last superconducting magnet for the LHC descended into the accelerator tunnel.
Read article 'First LHC sector reaches 1.9 K'
The first sector of the LHC to be cooled reached its operating temperature of 1.9 K for the first time on 10 April.
Read article 'B-factories yield first evidence for elusive D⁰–D̅⁰ mixing'
It is more than 50 years since researchers first observed particle–antiparticle mixing, with the discovery of a second, longer-lived neutral kaon state. This discovery pre-dated the quark model, but...
Read article 'Theory ties strings round jet suppression'
The properties of quark–gluon plasma (QGP), where the quarks and gluons are no longer confined within hadrons, lead to intriguing effects that have already been studied in heavy-ion collisions at CE...
