Read article 'Gaia finds evidence of old Milky Way merger'
Gaia finds evidence of old Milky Way merger
Many of the stars appearing in the night sky did not originate from within our galaxy.
Read article 'Gaia finds evidence of old Milky Way merger'
Read article 'Λc+-baryon probes charm-quark hadronisation'
Λc+-baryon probes charm-quark hadronisation
This is essential to understand how charm-quark hadronisation is affected by the presence of the quark–gluon plasma.
Read article 'Doubly strange baryon observed in Japan'
Doubly strange baryon observed in Japan
Experimental evidence was first reported in the 1970s, but there has been a lingering theoretical controversy about the interpretation of both states.
Read article 'Machine powers down until 2021'
Machine powers down until 2021
The Large Hadron Collider’s 2018 proton physics run came to an end on 24 October, having accumulated an impressive dataset. The integrated luminosity delivered to both the ATLAS and CMS experiments...
Read article 'Plasma lenses promise smaller accelerators'
Plasma lenses promise smaller accelerators
An international team has made an advance towards more compact particle accelerators, demonstrating that beams can be focused via a technique called active plasma lensing without reducing the beam qua...
Read article 'ATLAS observes scattering of vector bosons'
ATLAS observes scattering of vector bosons
The cross-section of longitudinal weak-boson scattering would diverge, resulting in meaningless values, were it not for the exact cancellation due to Higgs-boson contributions.
Read article 'Paul Kunz 1942–2018'
Paul Kunz 1942–2018
A computing visionary and pioneer, who loved to share his ideas with irrepressible energy.
Read article 'Leon Lederman 1922–2018'
Leon Lederman 1922–2018
Lederman’s crowning achievement came in 1962 with the co-discovery of the muon neutrino.
Read article 'Hans Paar 1944–2018'
Hans Paar 1944–2018
He helped to create an atmosphere of creative thought and friendliness within every group he was part of.
Read article 'Suppression of the Λ(1520) resonance in Pb–Pb collisions'
Suppression of the Λ(1520) resonance in Pb–Pb collisions
Due to their short lifetimes, they decay when the system is still dense and the decay products scatter in the hadron gas, reducing the observed number of decays.
