Read article 'Ferdinand Hahn 1959–2018'
Ferdinand Hahn 1959–2018
Enthusiastic and highly skilled colleague
Read article 'Ferdinand Hahn 1959–2018'
Read article 'SuperKEKB steps out at the intensity frontier'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
Trigger-level searches for low-mass dijet resonances
Dijet searches look for a resonance in the two-jet invariant mass spectrum.
