Read article 'Optical survey pinpoints dark-matter structure'
Optical survey pinpoints dark-matter structure
Dark Energy Survey (DES) will predict cosmological parameters such as the fractions of dark energy, dark matter and normal matter.
Read article 'Optical survey pinpoints dark-matter structure'
Read article 'Slovenia accedes to associate membership'
Slovenia accedes to associate membership
Slovenian physicists contributed to CERN’s programme long before Slovenia became an independent state in 1991.
Read article 'Revamped HIE-ISOLDE serves experiments'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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...
