Read article 'Particle Zoo searching for new keeper'
The Particle Zoo, a California-based company that produces soft-toy versions of elementary particles and other outreach materials, is searching for a buyer to take the reins.
Read article 'Machine learning improves cosmic citizen science'
The DECO team has developed a new machine-learning analysis.
Read article 'Precise measurement of sin2θW at CMS'
The electroweak mixing angle is a key parameter defining how the SM unifies the electromagnetic and weak forces.
Read article 'The rarest B0 decay ever observed'
The LHCb collaboration has observed the rare baryonic decay B0 → pp, as first presented at the European Physical Society conference in Venice in early July. The branching fraction was measured a...
Read article 'Charm flow in the quark–gluon plasma'
The ALICE collaboration has reported a measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy in the production of D mesons, which contain a charm quark, when measured relative to the estimated reaction plane of lea...
Read article 'ATLAS hunts for new physics with dibosons'
Many Standard Model extensions predict new resonances that can decay into a pair of bosons, for example: VV, Vh, Vγ and γγ.
Read article 'Optical survey pinpoints dark-matter structure'
Dark Energy Survey (DES) will predict cosmological parameters such as the fractions of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter.
Read article 'Slovenia accedes to associate membership'
Slovenian physicists contributed to CERN’s programme long before Slovenia became an independent state in 1991.
Read article 'Revamped HIE-ISOLDE serves experiments'
CERN’s long-running radioactive-ion-beam facility ISOLDE, which produces beams for a wide range of scientific communities, has recently been upgraded to allow higher-energy beams. In July, the secon...
Read article 'Precision study reveals proton to be lighter'
A team in Germany has made the most precise measurement to date of the mass of a single proton, achieving a precision of 32 parts-per-trillion (ppt). The result not only improves on the precision of ...
