Read article 'Mysterious burst confounds astrophysicists'
Hypotheses are that the Cow was either a compact object being destroyed when coming too close to a black hole, or a special type of supernova in which a black hole or magnetar is produced.
Read article 'Probing gauge-boson polarisation'
WZ production, with its clean experimental signature, offers a sensitive way to search for anomalies.
Read article 'Charm mixing tests the Standard Model'
Given LHCb’s current level of experimental precision, any sign of CP violation would be a clear indication of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Read article 'CASTOR calorimetry delves into gluon saturation'
This largely unexplored phenomenon is expected to occur when the gluons in a hadron overlap transversally, and is enhanced for hadrons with high atomic numbers.
Read article 'Colliders join the hunt for dark energy'
The ATLAS collaboration carried out a first collider search for light scalar particles that could contribute to the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Read article 'German–Japanese centre to focus on precision physics'
The Centre for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries will offer access to ultra-sensitive equipment for atomic and nuclear physics, antimatter research, quantum optics and metrology.
Read article 'New measurements shine a light on the proton'
The ALICE collaboration has measured the photoproduction of J/ψ mesons.
Read article 'Solving the next mystery in astrophysics'
Until recently the number of theories on the origin of fast radio bursts outnumbered the number of observations.
Read article 'Actinide series shown to end with lawrencium'
Scientists have determined the ionisation potentials from fermium to lawrencium, confirming the filling of the 5f shell in the heavy actinides.
Read article 'China and Europe bid for post-LHC collider'
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in the summer of 2012 set particle physics on a new course of exploration.
