Read article 'Anisotropic flow in Xe–Xe collisions'
One of the key goals in exploring the properties of QCD matter is to determine the minimum value of the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio (η/s) for an ideal fluid.
Read article 'Black holes galore at galactic core'
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a dozen stellar-mass black holes at the centre of the galaxy, providing the first observational evidence for such a black-hole cluster.
Read article 'Ishfaq Ahmad 1930–2018'
His avid support for the International Centre for Theoretical Physics was based on his strong belief in science as a vehicle of peace and development.
Read article 'Richard Taylor 1929–2018'
Taylor was the co-recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of scaling in deep-inelastic electron–proton scattering.
Read article 'Ferdinand Hahn 1959–2018'
Enthusiastic and highly skilled colleague
Read article 'SuperKEKB steps out at the intensity frontier'
On 26 April the SuperKEKB accelerator at the KEK laboratory in Japan collided its first beams of electrons and positrons, marking the start of an ambitious data-taking campaign that will allow ultrapr...
Read article 'LHC physics soars ahead'
On 28 April, 13 days ahead of schedule, operators at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully injected 1200 bunches of protons into the machine and brought them into collision – formally ma...
Read article 'KLOE-2 completes data-taking at Frascati Φ-factory'
On 30 March the KLOE-2 experiment concluded its data-taking campaign at the electron–positron collider DAΦNE at the INFN National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF), Italy. This marks the conclusion of a...
Read article 'OPERA concludes on tau appearance'
A new analysis strategy applied to the full data sample led to the new total of 10 candidate events.
Read article 'US and India team up on neutrino physics'
On 16 April, US energy secretary Rick Perry and Indian Atomic Energy Secretary Sekhar Basu signed an agreement in New Delhi to expand the two countries’ collaboration in neutrino science. It opens t...
