Read article 'Energy efficiency – a new frontier'
Energy efficiency – a new frontier
Major savings in the energy consumption and cost of accelerators are there for the taking, with potential impact beyond particle physics.
Read article 'Energy efficiency – a new frontier'
Read article 'Addressing the outstanding questions'
Addressing the outstanding questions
At the European Strategy for Particle Physics, talks covered key questions in the field, and the accelerator, detector and computing technologies necessary to tackle them.
Read article 'Pushing the limits on supersymmetry'
Pushing the limits on supersymmetry
Despite the theory’s many appealing features, searches for SUSY at the LHC and elsewhere have so far yielded only exclusion limits.
Read article 'Boosting searches for fourth-generation quarks'
Boosting searches for fourth-generation quarks
If the new "T" quarks exist, they are expected to decay to a quark and a W, Z or Higgs boson.
Read article 'ALICE sheds new light on high-pT suppression'
ALICE sheds new light on high-pT suppression
These results demonstrate that with the correct treatment of biases from the parton–parton interactions the observed suppression in Pb–Pb collisions is consistent with results from p–Pb collisio...
Read article 'New pentaquarks resolved by LHCb'
New pentaquarks resolved by LHCb
The LHCb data also confirm that the structure previously reported by the collaboration in 2015 has now been resolved into two narrow, overlapping peaks.
Read article 'Serbia becomes CERN Member State'
Serbia becomes CERN Member State
Ever since the early days of CERN, the Serbian scientific community has made strong contributions to CERN’s projects.
Read article 'Welcome to the Science Gateway'
Welcome to the Science Gateway
On 8 April, CERN unveiled plans for a major new facility for scientific education and outreach.
Read article 'First images of the centre of a galaxy'
First images of the centre of a galaxy
On 10 April, researchers working on the Event Horizon Telescope released the first direct image of a black hole.
Read article 'BELLA sets new record for plasma acceleration'
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...
