Read article 'ISOLDE experiments: from a new magic number to the rarest element'
Two teams working on experiments at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have published results that extend knowledge in different areas of nuclear and atomic physics.
Read article 'ALICE through a gamma-ray looking glass'
The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles. Its design combines an excellent vertex resolution with a ...
Read article 'The return of quarkonia'
The physics of heavy quark–antiquark bound states is a long-standing puzzle, made more intriguing by results from the LHC.
Read article 'Are some atomic nuclei pear shaped?'
Most atomic nuclei that exist naturally are not spherical but have the shape of a rugby ball.
Read article 'First jet measurements with ALICE'
When quarks and gluons (partons) in opposing beams at high-energy hadron colliders meet they can scatter violently to produce correlated showers of particles, or “jets”. In proton–pr...
Read article 'Luminosity-independent measurement of the proton–proton total cross-section at 8 TeV'
The TOTEM collaboration has published the first luminosity-independent measurement at the LHC of the total proton–proton cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV.
Read article 'ALICE looks to the future'
After more than three years of highly successful operation, the ALICE detector is about to undergo a major programme of consolidation and upgrade during the Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) of CERN’s ac...
Read article 'Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball'
To see how much of a heavy ion participates in a collision, ALICE must determine a key parameter – centrality.
Read article 'TOTEM’s luminosity-independent cross-sections'
The TOTEM collaboration has published the first luminosity-independent measurement of the total proton–proton cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.
Read article 'ALICE and ATLAS find intriguing ‘double ridge’ in proton–lead collisions'
In analysing data from last year’s test run with proton–lead collisions in the LHC, the ALICE collaboration, followed almost immediately and independently by the ATLAS collaboration, have ...
