Read article 'Exploring the spin of top-quark pairs'
Exploring the spin of top-quark pairs
The Standard Model makes precise predictions for the frequency at which the spin of the top quark is aligned with the spin of the top antiquark.
Read article 'Exploring the spin of top-quark pairs'
Read article 'Real-time triggering boosts heavy-flavour programme'
Real-time triggering boosts heavy-flavour programme
LHCb has been flooded by b- and c-hadrons due to the large beauty and charm production cross-sections within the experiment’s acceptance.
Read article 'Report summarises dark-sector exploration'
Report summarises dark-sector exploration
ATLAS has recently released a summary gathering the results from more than 20 experimental searches for dark matter and a first collider search for dark energy.
Read article 'First beam at SLAC plasma facility'
First beam at SLAC plasma facility
FACET-II, a new facility for accelerator research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, has produced its first electrons. FACET-II is an upgrade to the Facility for Advanced Accelerat...
Read article 'Karlheinz Meier 1955–2018'
Karlheinz Meier 1955–2018
A visionary experimental particle physicist and co-founder of the Human Brain Project.
Read article 'LHCb constrains ultra-rare muonic B decay'
LHCb constrains ultra-rare muonic B decay
At first glance, measuring fully leptonic decays seems a step too far, since there is only one charged particle as a signature and no reconstructed B-decay vertex.
Read article 'Exploring how antimatter falls'
Exploring how antimatter falls
ALPHA-g and GBAR have begun campaigns to check whether antimatter falls under gravity at the same rate as matter.
Read article 'CMS weighs in on flavour anomalies'
CMS weighs in on flavour anomalies
Recent results from LHCb and other experiments appear to challenge the assumption of lepton-flavour universality.
Read article 'Gaia finds evidence of old Milky Way merger'
Gaia finds evidence of old Milky Way merger
Many of the stars appearing in the night sky did not originate from within our galaxy.
Read article 'Λc+-baryon probes charm-quark hadronisation'
Λc+-baryon probes charm-quark hadronisation
This is essential to understand how charm-quark hadronisation is affected by the presence of the quark–gluon plasma.
