Read article 'First evidence for rare Higgs-boson decay'
First evidence for rare Higgs-boson decay
The ATLAS collaboration today reported a 3.2σ excess over background of H → ℓℓγ decay candidates with dilepton mass less than 30 GeV.
Read article 'First evidence for rare Higgs-boson decay'
Read article 'HEP-based ventilator to be adapted for clinical use'
HEP-based ventilator to be adapted for clinical use
A UK team is adapting a low-cost ventilator developed at CERN for clinical use in the fight against COVID-19.
Read article 'Cosmic plasma-wakefield acceleration'
Cosmic plasma-wakefield acceleration
Recent studies suggest that plasma-wakefield acceleration also occurs naturally, potentially explaining the highest energy cosmic rays.
Read article 'European projects boost CERN’s medical applications'
European projects boost CERN’s medical applications
CERN's Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS) and MEDICIS facility work towards next- generation medical treatments.
Read article 'Heavy flavours probe QGP geometry'
Heavy flavours probe QGP geometry
While plumbing transverse momenta of 200 MeV for the first time, new results from the ALICE collaboration demonstrate the impact of collision geometry on heavy-quark energy loss.
Read article 'HL-LHC magnets enter production in the US'
HL-LHC magnets enter production in the US
Brookhaven National Laboratory has successfully tested a second Nb3Sn quadrupole, marking the end of the prototyping phase for the HL-LHC quadrupoles.
Read article 'NICA booster achieves first beam'
NICA booster achieves first beam
The booster synchrotron at Russia's NICA accelerator complex accelerated helium ions in late December.
Read article 'Specialising in strong interactions: Richard Roberts 1940–2020'
Specialising in strong interactions: Richard Roberts 1940–2020
Roberts was the “R” in the MRST collaboration, famous for calculating hadronic structure functions.
Read article 'Final stretch for LHC upgrades'
Final stretch for LHC upgrades
After two years of intense work, accelerator physicists are cooling the LHC to operational temperatures and eyeing the final stretch of the road to Run 3.
Read article 'LHCb sheds light on Vub puzzle'
LHCb sheds light on Vub puzzle
LHCb has recently published a new result on |Vub| using the first ever measurement of the Bs0→K–μ+νμ decay.
