Read article 'Xenon beams light path to gamma factory'
On 14 September, CERN injected a beam of partially ionised xenon atoms into the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and kept it circulating for a short period. The successful demonstration, carried out by ...
Read article 'CLEAR prospects for accelerator research'
A new user facility for accelerator R&D, the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR), started operation in August and is ready to provide beam for experiments.
Read article 'China neutron source sees first beam'
In late August, the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) produced its first neutron beam, representing an important milestone for the $280 million project. The world’s fourth pulsed spallation neu...
Read article 'Servers for SESAME'
On 12 September, 56 servers left CERN bound for the SESAME light-source facility in Jordan. “These servers are a very valuable addition to the SESAME data centre,” said Salman Matalgah, head of IT...
Read article 'UK neutrino investment steps up'
The UK is to invest £65 million (€74 million) in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US, announced UK science minister Jo Johnson on 2...
Read article 'Fastest spinning fluid clocked by RHIC'
Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that droplets of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) can spin faster than any other fluid. The immensely h...
Read article 'LHCb digs deeper into lepton-flavour universality'
The LHCb collaboration has released yet another result in its campaign to test lepton-flavour universality. Following anomalies already detected in the rate that B mesons decay into muons compared to ...
Read article 'CMS observes top quarks in proton–nucleus collisions'
The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle in the Standard Model, has been the subject of numerous detailed studies in proton–antiproton and proton–proton collisions at the Tevatron and LHC s...
Read article 'ATLAS experiment makes precision measurement of top-quark mass'
While only retaining 40% of the events, the total uncertainty is improved by 19%, leading to a top-quark mass of 172.08±0.91 GeV.
Read article 'ALICE studies possible light tetraquark'
Radius parameters versus average transverse kaon-pair momentum determined from K0S – K± correlations and identical-kaon correlations in central ALICE lead–lead collisions. The a0(980) ...
