Read article 'ESA gives green light for LISA'
ESA gives green light for LISA
The European Space Agency (ESA) gave the official go-ahead for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).
Read article 'ESA gives green light for LISA'
Read article 'LHC luminosity upgrade accelerates'
LHC luminosity upgrade accelerates
CERN has recently implemented two important steps towards the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) – an upgrade that will increase the intensity of the LHC’s collisions significantly from the early 2020s....
Read article 'Neutrino detectors on the move'
Neutrino detectors on the move
On 12 June, two large detector modules for the ICARUS experiment were loaded onto trucks at CERN to begin a six-week journey to Fermilab in the US. ICARUS will form part of Fermilab’s short-baseline...
Read article 'Astronomers spot first failed supernova'
Astronomers spot first failed supernova
Findings suggest the star N6946-BH1 directly collapsed into black hole.
Read article 'LHC back with a splash'
LHC back with a splash
On 29 April, just after 8.00 p.m., the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began circulating beams of protons for the first time this year. Extensive technical and maintenance work was undertaken since its en...
Read article 'Workshop puts advanced accelerators on track'
Workshop puts advanced accelerators on track
Researchers working on advanced and novel accelerator technologies met at CERN on 25–28 April to draw up an international roadmap for future high-energy particle accelerators. Organised by the Inte...
Read article 'CAST experiment constrains solar axions'
CAST experiment constrains solar axions
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope has reported important new exclusion limits on coupling of axions to photons.
Read article 'Belle II rolls in'
Belle II rolls in
On 11 April, the Belle II detector at the KEK laboratory in Japan was successfully “rolled-in” to the collision point of the upgraded SuperKEKB accelerator, marking an important milestone for the ...
Read article 'CERN on the road'
CERN on the road
The project will integrate the laboratory better into the local urban landscape.
Read article 'LHCb finds new hints of Standard Model discrepancy'
LHCb finds new hints of Standard Model discrepancy
At a seminar at CERN on 18 April, the LHCb collaboration presented new results in flavour physics that show an interesting departure from Standard Model (SM) predictions. The new measurement concerns ...
