Read article 'Spotting the first extragalactic planets'
Spotting the first extragalactic planets
Radiation emitted around a distant black hole has revealed the existence of extragalactic planets in a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away.
Read article 'Spotting the first extragalactic planets'
Read article 'Aharon Casher 1941–2018'
Aharon Casher 1941–2018
Key and long-lasting contributions across theoretical physics
Read article 'Europe defines astroparticle strategy'
Europe defines astroparticle strategy
Multi-messenger astronomy, neutrino physics and dark matter are among several topics set to take priority in Europe, according to a report by the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC).
Read article 'Neutrons cooled for interrogation'
Neutrons cooled for interrogation
Researchers at TRIUMF in Canada have reported the first production of ultracold neutrons (UCN), marking an important step towards a future neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment at the Vanco...
Read article 'Lithuania formalises CERN membership'
Lithuania formalises CERN membership
Lithuania’s relationship with CERN dates back to an International Cooperation Agreement signed in 2004, with Lithuanian researchers contributing to the CMS experiment since 2007.
Read article 'LHC prepares for final year of Run 2'
LHC prepares for final year of Run 2
Since 4 December, around 500 technicians and engineers have been working flat-out to maintain and upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other parts of the CERN accelerator complex. The current y...
Read article 'Rare hyperon-decay anomaly under the spotlight'
Rare hyperon-decay anomaly under the spotlight
The LHCb collaboration has shed light on a long-standing anomaly in the very rare hyperon decay Σ+ → pµ+µ– first observed in 2005 by Fermilab’s HyperCP experiment. The HyperCP team found ...
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ESO
A new national facility at La Silla Observatory in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), made its first observations at the beginning of the year.
Read article 'ATLAS measures rare top plus boson production'
ATLAS measures rare top plus boson production
In two new results, ATLAS presents strong evidence for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson.
Read article 'CMS hunts for heavy neutral leptons'
CMS hunts for heavy neutral leptons
Through their mixing with the Standard Model neutrinos, sterile Majorana neutrinos could be produced at the LHC in leptonic W-boson decays.
