Read article 'Getting excited about the Higgs?'
The presentations revealed that if the Higgs boson exists in the manner predicted by the Standard Model, then its mass is most likely between 115.5 and 127 GeV.
Read article 'LHCb sees first evidence for CP violation in charm decays'
The LHCb collaboration has announced of the most interesting (and unexpected) results to come from the LHC so far: evidence of CP violation in charm decays.
Read article 'ATLAS discovers its first new particle'
The ATLAS collaboration has announced the discovery of the χb(3P), which is a bound state of a bottom quark and bottom antiquark (bb).
Read article 'Hadron spectra probe nature of matter in Pb–Pb collisions'
In current understanding, the matter created in heavy-ion collisions – the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) – behaves as a nearly perfect liquid.
Read article 'New technique probes isovector transitions'
A team at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University has developed a new experimental technique for measuring (p, n) charge-exchange reactions at intermediat...
Read article 'Meeting sets scene for LHC-luminosity upgrade'
A design study for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project to upgrade the LHC has been launched.
Read article 'Events that match companies and researchers'
While researchers strive for better instruments and methods, industrial companies look towards the research community for turning clever ideas and working prototypes into commercial products with impr...
Read article 'European funding agencies push forward large astroparticle-physics projects'
European funding agencies have welcomed the priorities for the future of astroparticle physics defined by the scientific community and have accepted the recommendations included in the update of the E...
Read article 'First results from Double Chooz'
Physicists at the Double Chooz experiment have found an indication of a disappearance of electron-antineutrinos that is consistent with neutrino oscillations.
Read article '‘Supernova of a generation’ reveals its nature'
Astronomers have put under scrutiny the brightest and closest stellar explosion seen in the past 25 years. They have identified the supernova in the Pinwheel galaxy observed on 24 August 201...
