Read article 'Jet ν2 measurements with ALICE'
High-energy scattering of partons (quarks and gluons) produces collimated cones of particles called jets, the production rate of which can be calculated using perturbative QCD techniques. In heavy-ion...
Read article 'LHCb brings charm physics to the frontier of experimental knowledge'
Owing to the large cross-section for charm production at the LHC, LHCb collected the world’s largest sample of charmed hadrons, allowing for stringent tests of the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–...
Read article 'Construction of KM3NeT, a next-generation neutrino telescope, has begun'
In the early morning of 3 December, scientists and engineers started the installation of KM3NeT (CERN Courier July/August 2012 p31). Once completed, it will be the largest detector of neutrinos i...
Read article 'Manufacturing and delivery of components for the new heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100 at FAIR has begun'
The international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) (CERN Courier May 2007 p23) is currently under construction at GSI, in Darmstadt, Germany. The FAIR accelerators will delive...
Read article 'LUNA observes a rare nuclear reaction that occurs in giant red stars'
LUNA has observed three low-energy resonances in the neon-sodium cycle, responsible for sodium production in red giants and energy generation.
Read article 'DAMPE joins the search for dark matter in space'
On 17 December, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) successfully launched the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, markin...
Read article 'Is there a ‘ninth planet’ after all?'
Mike Brown and one of his colleagues, the theorist Konstantin Batygin have found indications of the presence of a very distant heavy planet orbiting the Sun.
Read article 'A year of challenges and successes'
2015 was a tough year for CERN’s accelerator sector. Besides assuring delivery of beam to the extensive non-LHC facilities such as the AD, ISOLDE, nTOF and the North Area, many teams also had to wor...
Read article 'Latest ATLAS results with 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the LHC'
Since the first ATLAS results from LHC Run 2 were presented at this summer’s conferences (EPS-HEP 2015 and LHCP 2015) with an amount of data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approxima...
Read article 'CMS presents new 13 TeV results at end-of-year jamboree'
The first phase of collisions after the LHC restart earlier this year provided CMS with data at the novel energy of 13 TeV, enabling CMS to explore uncharted domains of physics. At the end of this ex...
