Read article 'Editor’s note'
Editor’s note
After 13 years as the Courier’s Astrowatch contributor, astronomer Marc Türler is moving to pastures new.
Read article 'Editor’s note'
Read article 'Sri Lanka signs International Co-operation Agreement with CERN'
Sri Lanka signs International Co-operation Agreement with CERN
Previously, scientists from Sri Lanka have participated in LHC experiments within the framework of sabbatical leave.
Read article 'European computing cloud takes off'
European computing cloud takes off
A European scheme to make publicly funded scientific data openly available has entered its first phase of development, with CERN one of several organisations poised to test the new technology. Launche...
Read article 'Milestone for US dark-matter detector'
Milestone for US dark-matter detector
The US Department of Energy has formally approved a key construction milestone for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment.
Read article 'European organisations uphold scientific values'
European organisations uphold scientific values
More than 50 science organisations in Europe have written an open letter expressing concern about the impact of recent US policies on science, research and innovation.
Read article 'Chamonix event prepares for LHC’s future'
Chamonix event prepares for LHC’s future
2016 was a remarkably successful year for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marked by excellent peak performance, good availability and operational flexibility (CERN Courier December 2016 p5). Tar...
Read article 'CMS undergoes tracker transplant'
CMS undergoes tracker transplant
At the beginning of March, the CMS collaboration successfully replaced the heart of its detector: the pixel tracker. This innermost layer of the CMS detector, a cylindrical device containing 124 milli...
Read article 'ATLAS reveals more strangeness in the proton'
ATLAS reveals more strangeness in the proton
The excellent theoretical understanding of the production of electroweak W and Z gauge bosons in proton–proton collisions at the LHC makes these “standard-candle” processes ideal for studying th...
Read article 'ALICE measures shape of the QGP fireball at freeze-out'
ALICE measures shape of the QGP fireball at freeze-out
Heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies create a hot and dense medium of deconfined quarks and gluons, known as the quark–gluon plasma (QGP). The QGP fireball first expands, cools and then freezes out ...
Read article 'Rare decay puts Standard Model on the spot'
Rare decay puts Standard Model on the spot
The decay rate of the B0s meson to two muons is a flagship measurement in flavour physics. It is extremely rare and well predicted in the Standard Model (SM), with a branching fraction of (3.65±0.23)...
