ALICE sheds new light on high-pT suppression
These results demonstrate that with the correct treatment of biases from the parton–parton interactions the observed suppression in Pb–Pb collisions is consistent with results from p–Pb collisio...
New pentaquarks resolved by LHCb
The LHCb data also confirm that the structure previously reported by the collaboration in 2015 has now been resolved into two narrow, overlapping peaks.
Serbia becomes CERN Member State
Ever since the early days of CERN, the Serbian scientific community has made strong contributions to CERN’s projects.
Welcome to the Science Gateway
On 8 April, CERN unveiled plans for a major new facility for scientific education and outreach.
First images of the centre of a galaxy
On 10 April, researchers working on the Event Horizon Telescope released the first direct image of a black hole.
BELLA sets new record for plasma acceleration
Physicists used a novel scheme to channel 850 TW laser pulses through a 20 cm-long plasma, allowing electron beams to be accelerated to an energy of 7.8 GeV – almost double the previous record...
Flavour anomalies continue to intrigue
The LHCb collaboration has released a much anticipated update on its measurement of RK – a powerful test of lepton universality.
SESAME synchrotron goes all-solar
SESAME is now the world’s first major research infrastructure to be fully powered by renewable energy.
Physicists digest Japan’s ILC statement
The Japanese government has put on hold a decision about hosting the International Linear Collider.
LHCb observes CP violation in charm decays
Met with an impromptu champagne celebration, the result represents a milestone in particle physics.
