Read article 'Lev Lipatov 1940–2017'
Lev Lipatov 1940–2017
Leading figure worldwide in the high-energy behaviour of quantum field theory
Read article 'Lev Lipatov 1940–2017'
Read article 'International committee backs 250 GeV ILC'
International committee backs 250 GeV ILC
That is half the energy set out five years ago in the ILC’s technical design report (TDR), shortening the length of the previous design (31 km) by around a third and slashing its cost by up to 40%.
Read article 'The case of the disappearing neutrinos'
The case of the disappearing neutrinos
Neutrinos are popularly thought to penetrate everything owing to their extremely weak interactions with matter. A recent analysis by the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole proves this is n...
Read article 'Copper reveals nickel’s doubly magic nature'
Copper reveals nickel’s doubly magic nature
Teams at CERN’s ISOLDE facility and at RIKEN in Japan have found evidence that an exotic isotope of the metallic element nickel (78Ni) is doubly magic, opening a new vista on an important region of ...
Read article 'Novartis acquires CERN spin-off'
Novartis acquires CERN spin-off
Global healthcare company Novartis has announced plans to acquire Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a spin-off radiopharmaceutical firm established by former CERN physicist Stefano Buono in 200...
Read article 'Fermilab joins CERN openlab on data reduction'
Fermilab joins CERN openlab on data reduction
In November, Fermilab became a research member of CERN openlab – a public-private partnership between CERN and major ICT companies established in 2001 to meet the demands of particle-physics researc...
Read article 'SESAME sees first light'
SESAME sees first light
At 10.50 a.m. on 22 November 2017, the third-generation light source SESAME in Jordan produced its first X-ray photons, signalling the start of the regional laboratory’s experimental program. Resea...
Read article 'SwissFEL carries out first experiment'
SwissFEL carries out first experiment
The free-electron X-ray laser SwissFEL at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has hosted its inaugural experiment, marking the facility’s first science result and demonstrating that its...
Read article 'Searches for dark photons at LHCb'
Searches for dark photons at LHCb
While the dark photon does not couple directly to Standard Model particles, quantum-mechanical mixing between the photon and dark-photon fields can generate a small interaction.
Read article 'ATLAS extends searches for natural supersymmetry'
ATLAS extends searches for natural supersymmetry
Not only can SUSY accommodate dark matter and gauge–force unification at high energy, it offers a natural explanation for why the Higgs boson is so light compared to the Planck scale.
