Read article 'Romania becomes CERN Member State'
Romania has become the 22nd Member State of CERN, having acceded to the Organization’s founding convention, which is deposited with UNESCO, on 17 July. The accession crowns a period of co-o...
Read article 'LHC experiments weigh up 2016 data'
The 38th International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016) took place on 3–10 August in Chicago, US. Among numerous results presented, the LHC experiments released their latest analyses...
Read article 'New bunch-production scheme breaks luminosity record'
The LHC relies on the injector complex to deliver proton beams with well-defined transverse and longitudinal characteristics, which fold directly into luminosity performance. On 16 July, LHC Oper...
Read article 'LUX draws a blank on dark matter'
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment located at Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, US, has released its latest results in the search for dark matter. Following the c...
Read article 'LHCb finds tetraquark candidates'
The LHCb collaboration has reported the observation of three new exotic hadrons and confirmed the existence of a fourth by analysing the full data sample from LHC Run 1. Although the theoretical inte...
Read article 'CMS observes collective phenomena in pp collisions'
When heavy nuclei collide at high energies, a novel state of hot and dense matter – the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) – is expected to form. As a region of QGP expands and cools, it disso...
Read article 'Probing the electroweak sector with ATLAS'
Precise measurements of final states containing multiple electroweak bosons (W, Z or γ) offer a powerful probe of the gauge structure of the Standard Model.
Read article 'ALICE measures higher-flow harmonics'
In a collision between two nuclei that exhibits a large impact parameter, the initial spatial anisotropy of the overlap region was conjectured to be smooth and almond shaped. In the past few years, ho...
Read article 'AIDA-2020 calls for breakthrough detector technologies'
The European Union project AIDA-2020 (Advanced European Infrastructure for Detectors and Accelerators), in which CERN is a partner, has launched a proof-of-concept fund for breakthrough projects in th...
Read article 'Chinese accelerator passes milestone'
Physicists in China have passed an important milestone towards an accelerator-driven sub-critical (ADS) system, a novel accelerator design for advanced energy and other technologies. On 2 July, teams...
