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 'New precision measurement of the Λb lifetime'
The value of the Λb lifetime has long been controversial but the situation has recently been clarified by a new measurement from the LHCb experiment.
Read article 'Council updates European Strategy for Particle Physics'
The CERN Council formally adopted an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
Read article 'EC and CERN support major facility in Middle East'
The European Commission (EC) and CERN have agreed to support the construction of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East.
Read article 'ILC Technical Design Report is published'
A five-volume report containing the blueprint for the International Linear Collider (ILC) was published on 12 June.
Read article 'Data centre opens'
CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics inaugurated the CERN Tier-0 data-centre extension in Budapest on 13 June, marking the completion of the facility.
Read article 'Giant magnet ring makes epic journey'
Muon g-2 is a new experiment to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon – in other words, the difference of the value of its magnetic moment g from the simplest expectation of 2.
Read article 'DESY inaugurates prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array'
The first prototype telescope for the planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has been inaugurated in Berlin.
Read article 'Galaxy clusters shed new light on dark matter'
What is the actual distribution of dark matter? Does it follow the expectations for cold dark matter (CDM)? “Yes, it does,” according to a team of astronomers that has measured the average...
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.
