Read article 'The case of the disappearing neutrinos'
Neutrinos are popularly thought to penetrate everything owing to their extremely weak interactions with matter. A recent analysis by the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole proves this is n...
Read article 'Copper reveals nickel’s doubly magic nature'
Teams at CERN’s ISOLDE facility and at RIKEN in Japan have found evidence that an exotic isotope of the metallic element nickel (78Ni) is doubly magic, opening a new vista on an important region of ...
Read article 'Novartis acquires CERN spin-off'
Global healthcare company Novartis has announced plans to acquire Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a spin-off radiopharmaceutical firm established by former CERN physicist Stefano Buono in 200...
Read article 'Fermilab joins CERN openlab on data reduction'
In November, Fermilab became a research member of CERN openlab – a public-private partnership between CERN and major ICT companies established in 2001 to meet the demands of particle-physics researc...
Read article 'SESAME sees first light'
At 10.50 a.m. on 22 November 2017, the third-generation light source SESAME in Jordan produced its first X-ray photons, signalling the start of the regional laboratory’s experimental program. Resea...
Read article 'SwissFEL carries out first experiment'
The free-electron X-ray laser SwissFEL at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has hosted its inaugural experiment, marking the facility’s first science result and demonstrating that its...
Read article 'Searches for dark photons at LHCb'
While the dark photon does not couple directly to Standard Model particles, quantum-mechanical mixing between the photon and dark-photon fields can generate a small interaction.
Read article 'ATLAS extends searches for natural supersymmetry'
Not only can SUSY accommodate dark matter and gauge–force unification at high energy, it offers a natural explanation for why the Higgs boson is so light compared to the Planck scale.
Read article 'CMS studies rare top-quark processes'
No more than a few hundred tZq events and a dozen tttt events were expected after selection.
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 ...
