Read article 'Francis Farley 1920–2018'
Francis Farley 1920–2018
He received many honours, including election to a fellow of the Royal Society and the Hughes Medal for his work at CERN on g-2.
Read article 'Francis Farley 1920–2018'
Read article 'IceCube neutrino points to origin of cosmic rays'
IceCube neutrino points to origin of cosmic rays
On 22 September 2017, IceCube registered a 300 TeV neutrino of astrophysical origin, triggering worldwide follow-up observations.
Read article 'CMS looks into the dark'
CMS looks into the dark
If dark-QCD mediators were produced in pairs in the CMS detector, their signature would be striking.
Read article 'LHCb tests consistency of unitarity triangle'
LHCb tests consistency of unitarity triangle
The unitarity triangle exists in the complex plane and its area is a measure of the amount of CP violation in the Standard Model.
Read article 'Probing quark–gluon plasma with charmed mesons'
Probing quark–gluon plasma with charmed mesons
The ALICE collaboration has released a new measurement of the production of D mesons.
Read article 'First human 3D X-ray in colour'
First human 3D X-ray in colour
New-Zealand company MARS Bioimaging Ltd has used technology developed at CERN to perform the first colour 3D X-ray of a human body, offering more accurate medical diagnoses.
Read article 'Closing in on the muon’s magnetic moment'
Closing in on the muon’s magnetic moment
Experiment E989 is a reincarnation of the muon g-2 experiment at BNL, which found the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment to be 3.5 sigma above the Standard Model prediction.
Read article 'Relativity passes test on a galactic scale'
Relativity passes test on a galactic scale
Gravity behaves the same way on a galactic scale as it does in our solar system, and alternative gravity models which remove the need for dark energy are disfavoured.
Read article 'Italy and US join forces on sterile neutrinos'
Italy and US join forces on sterile neutrinos
The SBN programme comprises three neutrino detectors on the Fermilab site: the Short Baseline Near Detector, MicroBooNE and ICARUS.
Read article 'ATLAS observes Higgs-boson decay to b quarks'
ATLAS observes Higgs-boson decay to b quarks
Observing this decay mode and measuring its rate is mandatory to confirm (or not) the mass generation for fermions via Yukawa interactions, as predicted in the SM.
