Read article 'GSI ions target irregular heartbeat'
Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, have demonstrated the feasibility of using carbon ions to treat cardiac arrhythmia, in which abnormal electrical p...
Read article 'WIMP no-show in gamma-ray background'
A possible additional contribution from WIMP annihilation could not be identified, using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Read article 'India to become associate Member State'
India has been a partner of CERN for more than 50 years.
Read article 'Slovenia to become associate Member State in pre-stage to membership'
Slovenian physicists have participated in the LHC’s ATLAS experiment for the past 20 years, focusing on silicon tracking, protection devices and computing at the Slovenian Tier-2 data centre.
Read article 'Antihydrogen atoms show their colour'
The ALPHA collaboration has reported the first ever measurement of the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom.
Read article 'AWAKE makes waves'
In early December, the AWAKE collaboration made an important step towards a pioneering accelerator technology that would reduce the size and cost of particle accelerators. Having commissioned the faci...
Read article 'Quark–gluon plasma insights'
Powerful supercomputer simulations of colliding atomic nuclei have provided new insights about quark–gluon plasma (QGP), a superhot fluid of de-confined partons produced in heavy-ion collisions at t...
Read article 'Proton–lead run tops record year of LHC operations'
On 26 October, the LHC completed its 2016 proton–proton operations at a collision energy of 13 TeV, during which it exceeded the design value of the luminosity and broke many other records (CERN C...
Read article 'ATLAS makes precision measurement of W mass'
A precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, which was discovered at CERN in 1983, is vital because it is closely related to the masses of the top quark and the Higgs boson.
Read article 'Run 2 promises a harvest of beauty for LHCb'
The first b-physics analysis using data from LHC Run 2, which began in 2015 with proton–proton collisions at an energy of 13 TeV, shows great promise for the physics programme of LHCb. During 201...
