Read article 'Longitudinal asymmetry tracked in heavy-ion collisions'
In a heavy-ion collision, a longitudinal asymmetry arises due to unequal numbers of participating nucleons from the two colliding nuclei, causing a shift in the centre-of-mass (CM) of the overlapping ...
Read article 'HAWC clarifies cosmic positron excess'
New measurements by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) experiment hints at a more exotic origin of the positron excess.
Read article 'Pioneer of applied superconductivity: Henri Desportes 1933–2017'
A pioneer of applied superconductivity and an internationally recognised expert in accelerator and detector magnet systems
Read article 'Baby MIND takes first steps'
In mid-October, a neutrino detector that was designed, built and tested at CERN was loaded onto four trucks to begin a month-long journey to Japan. Once safely installed at the J-PARC laboratory in To...
Read article 'Majorana neutrinos remain elusive'
Neutrinoless double beta-decay is only possible if neutrinos and antineutrinos are identical or “Majorana” particles.
Read article 'EU project lights up X-band technology'
Advanced linear-accelerator (linac) technology developed at CERN and elsewhere will be used to develop a new generation of compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), thanks to a €3 million project...
Read article 'First cosmic-ray results from CALET on the ISS'
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) has released its first results concerning the nature of high-energy cosmic rays.
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 χc1�...
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...
