Read article 'BELLA sets new record for plasma acceleration'
Physicists used a novel scheme to channel 850 TW laser pulses through a 20 cm-long plasma, allowing electron beams to be accelerated to an energy of 7.8 GeV – almost double the previous record...
Read article 'Flavour anomalies continue to intrigue'
The LHCb collaboration has released a much anticipated update on its measurement of RK – a powerful test of lepton universality.
Read article 'SESAME synchrotron goes all-solar'
SESAME is now the world’s first major research infrastructure to be fully powered by renewable energy.
Read article 'Physicists digest Japan’s ILC statement'
The Japanese government has put on hold a decision about hosting the International Linear Collider.
Read article 'LHCb observes CP violation in charm decays'
Met with an impromptu champagne celebration, the result represents a milestone in particle physics.
Read article 'Bottomonium suppression in lead–lead collisions'
The quarkonium yield is suppressed in heavy-ion collisions when compared with proton–proton collisions because the binding force is screened by the hot and dense medium.
Read article 'Yong Ho Chin 1958–2019'
A leading theoretical accelerator physicist and chair of the beam dynamics panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators.
Read article 'First light for supersymmetry'
Ideas from supersymmetry have been used to address a longstanding challenge in optics – how to suppress unwanted spatial modes that limit the beam quality of high-power lasers.
Read article 'MINOS squeezes sterile neutrino’s hiding ground'
LSND, MiniBooNE and the reactor data are fairly compatible when interpreted in terms of sterile neutrinos, but they are in stark conflict with the null results from MINOS+ and IceCube.
Read article 'CMS beam pipe to be mined for monopoles'
A 6 m-long section will be cut into pieces and fed into a SQUID in the name of fundamental research.
