Read article '100 years of superconductivity'
100 years of superconductivity
Presentation of the new issue of the CERN Courier which highlights the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity.
Read article '100 years of superconductivity'
Read article 'OPERA reports time-of-flight anomaly'
OPERA reports time-of-flight anomaly
The OPERA experiment in Italy’s INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory has sent ripples round the world with its findings that neutrinos created 730 km away at CERN arrive at the detector slightly earlier than...
Read article 'Israel to become an associate member of CERN'
Israel to become an associate member of CERN
On 16 September, CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, and the Israeli ambassador and permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva,...
Read article 'Gravitational waves: European detectors keep up the pace'
Gravitational waves: European detectors keep up the pace
For several years the European gravitational-wave detectors GEO600 (a collaboration between Germany and the UK), close to Hanover, and Virgo (a collaboration between Italy, France, the Netherlands, Po...
Read article 'Kaonic hydrogen casts new light on strong dynamics'
Kaonic hydrogen casts new light on strong dynamics
Hadronic bound systems with strange quarks, such as kaonic hydrogen, are well suited for testing chiral dynamics, especially in view of the interplay between spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking...
Read article 'ALICE revolutionizes TOF systems'
ALICE revolutionizes TOF systems
The ALICE TOF is made of 1593 MRPCs, each of which is 120 cm long and consists of a double-stack MRPC, with a total of 10 gaps 250 μm wide
Read article 'ATLAS looks at vector bosons plus jets…'
ATLAS looks at vector bosons plus jets…
While searches with 2011 LHC data for the Higgs and new physics caught the headlines over the summer, detailed studies of 2010 data continue to yield high-precision physics.
Read article '…and measures suppression of single jets in heavy-ion collisions'
…and measures suppression of single jets in heavy-ion collisions
While primarily designed for proton–proton collisions, the ATLAS detector is also an excellent tool to perform measurements in the hot, dense environment of heavy-ion collisions, where temperatures ...
Read article 'New results from CMS on top quarks'
New results from CMS on top quarks
About a year ago, the CMS collaboration released its first publication on studies of the top quark.
Read article 'Herschel favours quiet galaxy build-up theory'
Herschel favours quiet galaxy build-up theory
Did most galaxies form their stars through violent and tumultuous merging events or via more steady and gentle processes? A study of deep-field observations by the Herschel Space Observatory favours a...
