Read article 'First light for supersymmetry'
Ideas from supersymmetry have been used to address a longstanding challenge in optics – how to suppress unwanted spatial modes that limit the beam quality of high-power lasers.
Read article 'MINOS squeezes sterile neutrino’s hiding ground'
LSND, MiniBooNE and the reactor data are fairly compatible when interpreted in terms of sterile neutrinos, but they are in stark conflict with the null results from MINOS+ and IceCube.
Read article 'CMS beam pipe to be mined for monopoles'
A 6 m-long section will be cut into pieces and fed into a SQUID in the name of fundamental research.
Read article 'Report reveals full reach of LHC programme'
The High-Luminosity LHC, scheduled to operate from 2026, will increase the instantaneous luminosity of the LHC by at least a factor of five beyond its initial design luminosity.
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.
