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...
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.
SESAME synchrotron goes all-solar
SESAME is now the world’s first major research infrastructure to be fully powered by renewable energy.
Physicists digest Japan’s ILC statement
The Japanese government has put on hold a decision about hosting the International Linear Collider.
LHCb observes CP violation in charm decays
Met with an impromptu champagne celebration, the result represents a milestone in particle physics.
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.
A foremost accelerator physicist: Yong Ho Chin 1958–2019
A leading theoretical accelerator physicist and chair of the beam dynamics panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators.
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.
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.
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.
