Read article 'The twists and turns of a successful year for the LHC'
On 11 December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to complete its 2017 proton-physics run and go into standby for its winter shutdown and maintenance programme. With the LHC having surpasse...
Read article 'Novel charmonium spectroscopy at LHCb'
The LHCb collaboration has published the result of precision mass and width measurements of the χc1 and χc2 charmonium states, performed for the first time by using the newly discovered decays χc1â...
Read article 'The curious case of the J/ψ flow'
Recently, the ALICE collaboration measured the elliptic flow of J/ψ mesons with unprecedented precision in lead–lead (Pb–Pb) collisions and, for the first time, also in proton–lead (p–Pb) col...
Read article 'ATLAS reports direct evidence for Higgs–top coupling'
The coupling can be directly probed by measuring the rate of events in which a Higgs boson is produced in association with a pair of top quarks.
Read article 'CMS sees Higgs boson decaying to b-quarks'
The Higgs boson decays to a pair of b quarks is by far the most frequent decay channel, however the signal is overwhelmed by QCD production.
Read article 'Extreme cosmic rays reveal clues to origin'
The Pierre Auger collaboration has published results showing that the arrival direction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) is far from uniform.
Read article 'Maryam Mirzakhani 1977–2017'
First woman and first Iranian citizen to win a Fields Medal
Read article 'Alper Garren 1925–2017'
A brilliant scientist who designed the accelerator lattice for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)
Read article 'Xenon beams light path to gamma factory'
On 14 September, CERN injected a beam of partially ionised xenon atoms into the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and kept it circulating for a short period. The successful demonstration, carried out by ...
Read article 'CLEAR prospects for accelerator research'
A new user facility for accelerator R&D, the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR), started operation in August and is ready to provide beam for experiments.
