Read article 'New boson’s mirror image looks like the Higgs'
More than 20 years ago, the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC embarked on a long road into the unknown and, rather like Christopher Columbus, the two collaborations reached a new land last summer....
Read article 'ATLAS in 2012: building on success'
As more data rolled in, new results rolled out.
Read article 'Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space!'
Carlos Lourenço reviews in 2012 Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space!
Read article 'Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’'
Carlos Lourenço reviews in 2012 Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’.
Read article 'Measurement of photons stimulates quest for QGP temperature'
One of the classic signals expected for a quark–gluon plasma (QGP) is the radiation of "thermal photons", with a spectrum reflecting the temperature of the system.
Read article 'CMS homes in on the heaviest quark'
The top quark is the heaviest point-like particle known. It weighs about as much as an atom of tungsten yet is an elementary building block of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Read article 'Deep-inelastic scattering enters the LHC era'
News from the DIS 2012 workshop held earlier this year in Bonn.
Read article 'Illuminating extra dimensions with photons'
Photons are a critical tool at the LHC, and the ATLAS detector has been carefully designed to measure photons precisely.
Read article 'Searching for new physics in rare kaon-decays'
The LHCb experiment was originally conceived of to study particles containing the beauty-flavoured b quark.
Read article 'The search for ‘big news’ continues'
The big news this summer was on the new Higgs-like boson and how the hint of an excess in last year’s 7 TeV data from the LHC became an observation with this year’s 8 TeV data.
