Read article 'LHC prepares for final year of Run 2'
Since 4 December, around 500 technicians and engineers have been working flat-out to maintain and upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other parts of the CERN accelerator complex. The current y...
Read article 'Rare hyperon-decay anomaly under the spotlight'
The LHCb collaboration has shed light on a long-standing anomaly in the very rare hyperon decay Σ+ → pµ+µ– first observed in 2005 by Fermilab’s HyperCP experiment. The HyperCP team found ...
Read article 'ESO'
A new national facility at La Silla Observatory in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), made its first observations at the beginning of the year.
Read article 'ATLAS measures rare top plus boson production'
In two new results, ATLAS presents strong evidence for the production of a single top quark in association with a Z boson.
Read article 'CMS hunts for heavy neutral leptons'
Through their mixing with the Standard Model neutrinos, sterile Majorana neutrinos could be produced at the LHC in leptonic W-boson decays.
Read article 'ALICE investigates charm-quark hadronisation'
These two results suggest that charmed baryon formation might not be universal, and that the baryon/meson ratio depends on the collision system.
Read article 'Ancient black hole lights up early universe'
The spectrum of J1342+0928 gives us a view on the universe when it was just 690 million years old.
Read article 'Raoul Gatto 1930–2017'
A big loss for science and for a whole generation of particle theorists
Read article 'Maria Krawczyk 1946–2017'
Well-known and respected scientist from the University of Warsaw
Read article 'Lev Lipatov 1940–2017'
Leading figure worldwide in the high-energy behaviour of quantum field theory
