Read article 'CMS detects first production of top quark and photon'
The predicted cross section for tγj, including the branching fraction, is 81 fb, which corresponds to a few hundred events in the whole dataset.
Read article 'Burton Richter 1931–2018'
A major figure in particle physics who shared the Nobel Prize for the co-discovery of the J/ψ meson.
Read article 'Nobel work shines a light on particle physics'
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three researchers for groundbreaking inventions in laser physics. Half the prize went to Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in the US for his wo...
Read article 'Satellite premieres in CERN irradiation facility'
CELESTA’s main goal is to enable a space version of an existing CERN technology called RadMon, which was developed to monitor radiation levels in the LHC.
Read article 'First beam at IOTA for accelerator research'
In late August, a beam of electrons successfully circulated for the first time through a new particle accelerator at Fermilab in the US. The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA), a 40 m-circumf...
Read article 'Beam tests bring ProtoDUNE to life'
The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector has recorded its first particle tracks in tests at CERN.
Read article 'LHCb discovers two new baryons'
By studying new hadronic resonances and their excited states, light can be shed on the mechanisms governing the dynamics of the strong force.
Read article 'Gravitational hunt for extra dimensions'
If extra dimensions are large, part of the gravitational field would “leak” into the extra dimensions and gravitational waves would be weaker than expected.
Read article 'AWAKE accelerates electrons in world first'
The AWAKE experiment at CERN has passed an important milestone towards compact, high-energy accelerators for applications in future high-energy physics experiments. Reporting in Nature on 29 August, ...
Read article 'ALPHA takes antihydrogen to the next level'
The collaboration has reported the first measurement of the Lyman-alpha transition.
