CERN and ESA join forces in harsh environments
CERN has signed a collaboration agreement with the European Space Agency to address the challenges of harsh radiation environments.
CMS revisits rare and beautiful decays
For many years the search for its extremely rare decay to a μ+μ– pair was a holy grail of particle physics.
Run 2 data set pins down Higgs-boson properties
Achieving 8% precision on the Higgs cross section is a significant step towards studying the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism.
Chasing charged-lepton-flavour violation
The LHCb collaboration recently reported the results of searches for two complementary charged-lepton-flavour violating decays.
ICTP announces next director
Atish Dabholkar succeeds Fernando Quevedo.
Guido Altarelli Award 2019
Jonathan Gaunt was recognised for contributions to parton scattering, and Josh Bendavid for his contributions to Higgs physics and parton density functions.
2019 Dirac Medal and Prize
Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Alexei Starobinsky and Rashid Sunyaev share the prize for work on the physics of the cosmic microwave background.
Julius Wess Award 2018
Sally Dawson of Brookhaven National Laboratory has been recognised for her outstanding contributions to the theoretical description of processes at hadron colliders.
Winners of 2019 Beamline for Schools competition
A Dutch team will compare electron and positron showers, while a US team will study the properties of scintillators.
Bottomonium elliptic-flow no-show
Bottomonia are the first hadrons that do not seem to "flow" in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC.
