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...
Read article 'Higgs boson reaches the top'
The CMS collaboration has published the first direct observation of the coupling between the Higgs boson and the top quark.
Read article 'ALICE probes partons inside lead nuclei'
The large centre-of-mass energy and luminosity of the LHC have made possible the first measurements of electroweak-boson production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions.
Read article 'Central exclusive production at LHCb'
Four years ago, LHCb measured the central exclusive production (CEP) of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV (CERN Courier March 2014 p7). In CEP, two incoming protons emerge i...
Read article 'Trigger-level searches for low-mass dijet resonances'
Dijet searches look for a resonance in the two-jet invariant mass spectrum.
Read article 'HESS proves the power of TeV astronomy'
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the HESS collaboration has published its largest set of scientific results to date.
Read article 'Beams back in LHC for final phase of Run 2'
Shortly after midday on 30 March, protons circulated in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time in 2018. Following its annual winter shutdown for maintenance and upgrades, the machine now e...
