Read article 'Astronomers spot first failed supernova'
Astronomers spot first failed supernova
Findings suggest the star N6946-BH1 directly collapsed into black hole.
Read article 'Astronomers spot first failed supernova'
Read article 'LHC back with a splash'
LHC back with a splash
On 29 April, just after 8.00 p.m., the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began circulating beams of protons for the first time this year. Extensive technical and maintenance work was undertaken since its en...
Read article 'Workshop puts advanced accelerators on track'
Workshop puts advanced accelerators on track
Researchers working on advanced and novel accelerator technologies met at CERN on 25–28 April to draw up an international roadmap for future high-energy particle accelerators. Organised by the Inte...
Read article 'CAST experiment constrains solar axions'
CAST experiment constrains solar axions
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope has reported important new exclusion limits on coupling of axions to photons.
Read article 'Belle II rolls in'
Belle II rolls in
On 11 April, the Belle II detector at the KEK laboratory in Japan was successfully “rolled-in” to the collision point of the upgraded SuperKEKB accelerator, marking an important milestone for the ...
Read article 'CERN on the road'
CERN on the road
The project will integrate the laboratory better into the local urban landscape.
Read article 'LHCb finds new hints of Standard Model discrepancy'
LHCb finds new hints of Standard Model discrepancy
At a seminar at CERN on 18 April, the LHCb collaboration presented new results in flavour physics that show an interesting departure from Standard Model (SM) predictions. The new measurement concerns ...
Read article 'Proton–proton collisions become stranger'
Proton–proton collisions become stranger
Recreating the intense fireball of quarks and gluons that existed immediately after the Big Bang, the quark–gluon plasma (QGP), traditionally requires high-energy collisions between heavy ions such ...
Read article 'ATLAS explores the energy frontier'
ATLAS explores the energy frontier
Utilising pairs of jets (dijets), a recent ATLAS search was able to probe the highest invariant mass of any of its searches, measuring events with energies as high as 8.1 TeV.
Read article 'SUSY searches in the electroweak sector'
SUSY searches in the electroweak sector
CMS has recently reported searches for electroweak production of neutralinos and charginos in different final states.
