Read article 'Jets boost nuclear coalescence'
The ALICE collaboration reported the first measurement of deuteron production in and out of jets in p–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV.
Read article 'Antonino Zichichi 1929–2026'
Antonino Zichichi, one of the most influential figures in high-energy physics and a towering presence in Italian scientific culture, passed away in Rome on 9 February 2026, at the...
Read article 'Quarkonium experts regroup at CERN'
The 17th Quarkonium Working Group brought together more than 200 researchers at CERN from 17 to 21 November.
Read article 'Photon detectors light up Bologna'
The 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors took place from 3 to 5 December 2025 at Bologna’s Palazzo d’Accursio.
Read article 'The flavour dependence of jet structures'
In a recent analysis, the ALICE collaboration compared the yields of charged particles associated with electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays with those of the light hadrons.
Read article 'Vienna’s new hub for particle physics'
On 7 November 2025, the Austrian Academy of Sciences inaugurated the Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics.
Read article 'Strangeness at its extremes'
The ALICE collaboration has performed one of the most precise studies of strange-to-non-strange hadron production to date at the LHC.
Read article 'Ten windows on the future of particle physics'
Paris Sphicas highlights key takeaways from the briefing book of the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
Read article 'Alchemy by pure light'
In lead collisions at the LHC, some of the strongest electromagnetic fields in the universe bombard the inside of the beam pipe with radioactive gold.
Read article 'First oxygen and neon collisions at the LHC'
Between 29 June and 9 July 2025, LHC physicists pushed the study of the quark–gluon plasma into new territory.
