Read article 'ATLAS observes Higgs-boson decay to b quarks'
Observing this decay mode and measuring its rate is mandatory to confirm (or not) the mass generation for fermions via Yukawa interactions, as predicted in the SM.
Read article 'Dates fixed for strategy update'
The European strategy group’s drafting session will take place on 20–24 January 2020, in Bad Honnef, Germany.
Read article 'Boosting high-performance computing in Nepal'
On 28 June, 200 servers from the CERN computing centre were donated to Kathmandu University in Nepal.
Read article 'CERN marks beginning of a luminous future'
A ceremony at CERN on 15 June celebrated the start of civil-engineering works for the high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The upgrade will allow about 10 times more data to...
Read article 'Muons accelerated in Japan'
The work paves the way for a compact muon linac that would enable precision measurements of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the electric dipole moment.
Read article 'Jefferson Lab inaugurates upgraded CEBAF'
The $338 million upgrade has tripled CEBAF’s original operating energy.
Read article 'Higgs centre opens for business'
A new facility called the Higgs Centre for Innovation opened at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh on 25 May as part of the UK government’s efforts to boost productivity and innovation. The centre,...
Read article 'Largest WIMP survey sets new limits'
XENON1T is a 3D-imaging liquid-xenon time projection chamber located at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.
Read article 'ISOLDE mints chromium for structure studies'
CERN’s radioactive ion-beam facility ISOLDE has stamped a new coin in its impressive collection. Long considered the domain of high-energy, in-flight rare-isotope facilities, chromium has now been p...
Read article 'CMS resolves inner structure of bottomonium'
Bottomonium mesons play a special role in our understanding of hadron formation because the large quark mass allows important simplifications in the relevant theoretical calculations.
