Read article 'First full jet measurement in Pb–Pb collisions with ALICE'
In high-energy collisions at the LHC, quarks and gluons occasionally scatter violently and produce correlated showers of particles, or “jets”. In proton–proton collisions, the rate o...
Read article 'ATLAS’s paths to the top-quark mass'
ATLAS has released new measurements of mtop using events with one or two isolated charged leptons and jets in the final state.
Read article 'COMPASS observes a new narrow meson'
The COMPASS collaboration has recently observed the existence of an unusual meson made from light quarks.
Read article 'Laser set-up generates electron–positron plasma in the lab'
An international team has at last succeeded in producing a neutral electron–positron plasma in a terrestrial laboratory experiment.
Read article 'RHIC smashes record for polarized-proton collisions at 200 GeV'
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has shattered its own record for producing polarized-proton collisions at 200 GeV
Read article 'Magnetic fields cast light on black hole’s edge'
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) has revealed an intense magnetic field at the base of the relativistic jet powered by a supermassive black hole. Probing the physical conditions...
Read article 'Proton beams are back in the LHC'
After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation, and several months of preparation for the restart, the LHC is back in operation.
Read article 'SESAME passes an important milestone at CERN'
The SESAME project – the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East – passed an important milestone at the beginning of April, with the complete assembly and su...
Read article 'Latest ATLAS results on the Higgs boson'
Recently published studies concern the decays of the Higgs boson into vector bosons and fermions in various production modes.
Read article 'CMS digs deeply into lepton-pair production'
The CMS collaboration published two new measurements that provide a comprehensive view of the production of dimuons.
