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.
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.
Probing gauge-boson polarisation
WZ production, with its clean experimental signature, offers a sensitive way to search for anomalies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New measurements shine a light on the proton
The ALICE collaboration has measured the photoproduction of J/ψ mesons.
Solving the next mystery in astrophysics
Until recently the number of theories on the origin of fast radio bursts outnumbered the number of observations.
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.
