Read article 'Revamped HIE-ISOLDE serves experiments'
CERN’s long-running radioactive-ion-beam facility ISOLDE, which produces beams for a wide range of scientific communities, has recently been upgraded to allow higher-energy beams. In July, the secon...
Read article 'Precision study reveals proton to be lighter'
A team in Germany has made the most precise measurement to date of the mass of a single proton, achieving a precision of 32 parts-per-trillion (ppt). The result not only improves on the precision of ...
Read article 'KEDR pins down R at low energies'
The KEDR collaboration has used the VEPP-4M electron–positron collider at the Budker Institute in Russia to make the most precise measurement of the quantity “R” in the low-energy range. R is de...
Read article 'SKA and CERN co-operate on extreme computing'
On 14 July, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organisation signed an agreement with CERN to formalize their collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing. The agreement will address the challeng...
Read article 'NuPECC sets out long-range plan'
The previous long-range plan was issued by the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee in 2010.
Read article 'ATLAS finds evidence for Higgs to bb'
To find evidence for the H → bb decay in the VH production channel, it is necessary to use detailed information on the properties of the decay products.
Read article 'CMS expands scope of dark-matter search in dijet channel'
Using three complementary techniques, CMS has now explored a large range in mass, coupling and width.
Read article 'Lead nuclei under scrutiny at LHCb'
In 2016 the LHC collided protons and lead nuclei for the first time at a centre-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV per nucleon–nucleon pair. In lead–lead collisions, the formation of the quark–gluon p...
Read article 'J/ψ mesons reveal stronger nuclear effects in pPb collisions'
Quarkonium states, such as the J/ψ meson, are prominent probes of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) formed in high-energy nucleus–nucleus (AA) collisions. That bulk J/ψ production is suppressed in AA...
Read article 'Evidence suggests all stars born in pairs'
A new study suggests that all stars start their lives as part of a binary pair.
