Read article 'AEgIS on track to test free-fall of antimatter'
AEgIS on track to test free-fall of antimatter
Precise knowledge of the moment anti-atoms are produced will allow new tests of the weak equivalence principle.
Read article 'AEgIS on track to test free-fall of antimatter'
Read article 'Return of the double simplex'
Return of the double simplex
The “double simplex” scheme , which was invented in 2005 by US theorist Chris Quigg, was recently given a flashy makeover by Quanta magazine.
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 '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 'Richard Roberts 1940–2020'
Richard Roberts 1940–2020
Roberts was the “R” in the MRST collaboration, famous for calculating hadronic structure functions.
