Read article 'Neutron-star mergers create heaviest elements'
While core-collapse supernovae were thought to be the prime production site, a new study suggests that elements heavier than zinc originate from the merger of two neutron stars.
Read article 'Data to physics'
At the beginning of May, the LHC declared the start of a new physics season for its experiments. The “Stable Beams” visible on the LHC Page 1 screen (see image above) is the “go ahe...
Read article 'Short but intense…'
After a short, but intense, “intermezzo” as editor of the CERN Courier, I’m stepping down as I head off to new challenges. I would like to thank the CERN Courier Advisory Board and the m...
Read article 'CMS benefits from higher boosts for improved search potential in Run 2'
The production cross-sections of many new-physics processes are predicted to rise dramatically compared with Run 1.
Read article 'Theatre of Dreams: LHCb looks to the future'
Eighty physicists gathered in Manchester on 6 and 7 April to discuss the future of the LHCb experiment. The LHCb collaboration is currently constructing a significant upgrade to its detector, which w...
Read article 'ATLAS explores the dark side of matter'
Astrophysics and cosmology have established that about 80% of the mass in the universe consists of dark matter. Dark matter and normal matter interact gravitationally, and they may also interact weakl...
Read article 'ALICE probes small-system dynamics with charm production at the LHC'
The first p–Pb data-taking campaign at the LHC was undertaken as a test of the initial state of heavy-ion collisions (CERN Courier March 2014 p17 and CERN Courier October 2013 p17), and surprisingly...
Read article 'MoEDAL releases new mass limits for the production of monopoles'
As a monopole approaches a coil its magnetic charge drives an electrical current which continues to flow after the monopole has passed if the wire is superconducting.
Read article 'BEPCII reaches its design luminosity'
A new luminosity record at the charm-tau energy region was recently broken again by the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII). The new record, 1 × 1033 cm–2s–1 at 1.89 GeV beam energy...
Read article 'Protons accelerated to PeV energies'
The HESS collaboration has now found evidence that there is a "Pevatron" in the central 33 light-years of the Milky Way.
