Read article 'Searches with boosted topologies at Run 2'
ATLAS exploited the optimised boson tagging in the search for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of two electroweak gauge bosons (WW, WZ, ZZ) or of a gauge boson and a Higgs boson (WH, ZH).
Read article 'Anisotropic flow in Run 2'
Exploiting the data collected during November 2015 with Pb–Pb collisions at the record-breaking energy of √sNN = 5.02 TeV, ALICE measured for the first time the anisotropic flow of charged part...
Read article 'CMS hunts for supersymmetry in uncharted territory'
With the increase in the LHC centre-of-mass energy from 8 to 13 TeV, the production cross-section for hypothetical SUSY partners rises.
Read article 'LHCb awards physics prizes for its Kaggle competition'
Machine learning, also known in physics circles as multivariate analysis, is used more and more in high-energy physics, most visibly in data analysis but also in other applications such as trigger and...
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 ...
