Read article 'Daya Bay experiment begins taking data'
Daya Bay experiment begins taking data
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has begun its quest to answer some of the puzzling questions that still remain about neutrinos.
Read article 'Daya Bay experiment begins taking data'
Read article 'ALICE measures the shape of
head-on lead–lead collisions'
ALICE measures the shape of head-on lead–lead collisions
One the many surprises to have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and now at CERN's LHC concerns the extreme fluidity of the dense matt...
Read article 'Lepton Photon goes to Mumbai'
Lepton Photon goes to Mumbai
The global nature of modern particle physics was clearly manifest at the biennial Lepton Photon conference that took place this year in India.
Read article 'LHC@home 2.0 attracts massive support'
LHC@home 2.0 attracts massive support
The public launch in August of a new application for CERN's volunteer-computing platform LHC@home produced an overwhelming response.
Read article 'LHCb pins down the Bs mixing phase'
LHCb pins down the Bs mixing phase
The LHCb collaboration's presentation at Lepton Photon 2011 included one of the most eagerly awaited measurements in flavour physics.
Read article 'Top precision at ATLAS'
Top precision at ATLAS
Measurements of top-quark properties were among the many new results shown by the ATLAS collaboration at Lepton-Photon 2011.
Read article 'CMS updates its Higgs search'
CMS updates its Higgs search
The CMS search for the Higgs boson is being carried out using a range of decay products: two photons; two τ leptons; two b quarks; two W bosons; and two Z bosons.
Read article 'ν–ν̅ mass difference lessens'
ν–ν̅ mass difference lessens
One of last year's surprise results came from the MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) experiment in the US, which suggested that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrino...
Read article 'A diamond planet is found around a pulsar'
A diamond planet is found around a pulsar
“Remember when you were young, you shone like the Sun”, opens the famous song Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Written as a tribute to Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s lead musician until 1975, ...
Read article 'EPS-HEP 2011: the harvest begins'
EPS-HEP 2011: the harvest begins
Impressive results, and so much more to come: this is the general feeling that more than 800 participants took home from the International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, EPS-HEP 2011,...
