Read article 'The twists and turns of a successful year for the LHC'
On 11 December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to complete its 2017 proton-physics run and go into standby for its winter shutdown and maintenance programme. With the...
Read article 'The curious case of the J/ψ flow'
Recently, the ALICE collaboration measured the elliptic flow of J/ψ mesons with unprecedented precision in lead–lead (Pb–Pb) collisions and, for the first time, also in proton...
Read article 'Illuminating antimatter'
The ALPHA collaboration has made seminal measurements of antihydrogen’s spectral structure in a bid to test nature’s fundamental symmetries.
Read article 'Time to adapt for big data'
A report calls for radical changes in computing and software to ensure the success of high-energy physics experiments into the 2020s
Read article 'Beams back in LHC for final phase of Run 2'
Shortly after midday on 30 March, protons circulated in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time in 2018. Following its annual winter shutdown for maintenance and upgrade...
Read article 'Central exclusive production at LHCb'
Four years ago, LHCb measured the central exclusive production (CEP) of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV (CERN Courier March 2014 p7). In CEP, two incom...
Read article 'CERN thinks bigger'
The Future Circular Collider study would see a 100 km-circumference tunnel built at CERN to host post-LHC colliders.
Read article 'Anisotropic flow in Xe–Xe collisions'
One of the key goals in exploring the properties of QCD matter is to determine the minimum value of the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio (η/s) for an ideal fluid.
Read article 'LHC upgrade brings benefits beyond physics'
The high-luminosity LHC promises a quantifiable return to society in terms of scientific, economic and cultural value.
Read article 'Thin silicon sharpens STAR imaging'
A new technology has enabled the STAR collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) to greatly expand its ability to reconstruct short-...
