Read article 'DESY sets out vision for the future'
The laboratory’s plans for the 2020s include building the world’s most powerful X-ray microscope and constructing a new centre for data and computing science.
Read article 'Flooded LHC data centre back in business'
Following severe damage caused by flooding on 9 November, the INFN-CNAF Tier-1 data centre of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) in Bologna, Italy, has been fully repaired and is back in business...
Read article 'First hints of ultra-rare kaon decay'
The NA62 collaboration at CERN has found a candidate event for the ultra-rare decay K+ → π+ ν ν, demonstrating the experiment’s potential to test heavily-suppressed corners of the Stand...
Read article 'Antihydrogen spectroscopy enters precision era'
Measurements of the hydrogen’s spectral structure agree with theoretical predictions to a few parts in 1015. Researchers have long sought to match this precision for antihydrogen.
Read article 'Charm oscillations precisely measured by LHCb'
Direct searches for particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) have so far come up empty handed, but perhaps physicists can get luckier with indirect searches. Quantum mechanics allows neutral flavoured...
Read article 'ATLAS focuses on Higgs-boson decays to vector bosons'
The Higgs-boson decay to two W bosons (H → WW) is the second most common decay mode after its decay to two b quarks.
Read article 'ALICE closes in on parton energy loss'
In Pb-Pb collisions, the spectra are modified by the energy loss that the partons suffer when propagating in the quark-gluon plasma.
Read article 'CMS observes rarest Z boson decay mode'
Theoretical calculations of this process predict a branching fraction of 6.7–7.7 × 10–7.
Read article 'Hubble expansion discrepancy deepens'
Adam Riess from the Space Telescope Science Institute and colleagues have now made a more precise, direct measurement that reinforces the mismatch and could signal new physics.
Read article 'Violette Brisson 1934–2018'
Highly respected member of the French particle-physics community
