Read article 'Europe calls for advanced detector and imaging ideas'
The European Union (EU) has committed €17 million to help bring a total of 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas to market. Led by CERN and funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, the A...
Read article 'US initiative to tackle data demands of HL-LHC'
It will receive $5 million per year for a period of five years.
Read article 'Hyper-Kamiokande construction to start in 2020'
Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology allocated $700,000 for the 2019 fiscal year.
Read article 'Survey addresses recognition in large collaborations'
The survey will be distributed widely, with a deadline for responses of 26 October.
Read article 'Thin silicon sharpens STAR imaging'
A new technology has enabled the STAR collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) to greatly expand its ability to reconstruct short-lived charm hadron d...
Read article 'First low-mass dielectron results ahead of LHC Run 3'
In contrast to strongly interacting hadronic probes, dielectrons provide an unperturbed view into the quark–gluon plasma.
Read article 'A decade of advances in jet substructure'
Recent focus on measuring Standard Model properties using jet substructure has motivated ATLAS to measure the energy and mass response of large-radius jets with the highest possible precision.
Read article 'Fixed-target physics in collider mode at LHCb'
The LHCb fixed-target system, known as SMOG, injects a small amount of noble gas inside the LHC beam pipe.
Read article 'Observation of Higgs-boson decay to bottom quarks'
Processes that include the Higgs boson’s favoured decay mode to b quarks (with about 58% probability) have until now remained elusive.
Read article 'Solving the mystery of a historic stellar blast'
Some 180 years ago, a relatively normal star called Eta Carinae suddenly brightened to become the second brightest star in the sky, before almost disappearing at the end of the 19th century.
