Read article 'Another important step for the AWAKE experiment'
By harnessing the power of wakefields generated by a proton beam in a plasma cell, the AWAKE experiment at CERN (CERN Courier November 2013 p17) aims to produce accelerator gradients that are hundreds...
Read article 'BESIII makes first direct measurement of the Λc at threshold'
The charmed baryon, Λc, was first observed at Fermilab in 1976. Now, 40 years later, the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) experiment at the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II (BEPCII) has measure...
Read article '‘First turns’ for SuperKEKB'
On 10 February, the SuperKEKB electron–positron collider in Tsukuba, Japan, succeeded in circulating and storing a positron beam moving close to the speed of light through 1000 magnets...
Read article 'TPS exceeds design goal of 500 mA stored current'
In December last year, the 3 GeV Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) of the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) stored 520 mA of electron current in its storage ring, and gave the world a ...
Read article 'DZero discovers new four-flavour particle'
Scientists from the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab have discovered a new particle – the latest member to be added to the exotic species of particles known as tetraqu...
Read article 'Testing of DUNE tech begins'
The planned Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) (CERN Courier December 2015 p19) will require 70,000 tonnes of liquid argon, making it the largest experiment of its kind – 100 ...
Read article 'Gamma-ray excess is not from dark matter'
Two research teams found that the gamma rays of the excess emission at the galactic centre are not distributed as expected from dark matter.
Read article 'CERN sets accelerator objectives for 2016'
The LHC Performance Workshop took place in Chamonix from 25 to 28 January. Attended by representatives from across the accelerator sector, including members of the CERN Machine Advisory Committee...
Read article 'Exploring the nature of the proposed magic number N = 32'
Magic numbers appear in nuclei in which protons or neutrons completely fill a shell. The existence of magic numbers to explain certain regularities observed in nuclei was discovered in 1949 independen...
Read article 'New ALPHA measurement of the charge of antihydrogen'
Only a few direct measurements have been performed so far to test this conjecture.
