Read article 'CMS benefits from higher boosts for improved search potential in Run 2'
The production cross-sections of many new-physics processes are predicted to rise dramatically compared with Run 1.
Read article 'Theatre of Dreams: LHCb looks to the future'
Eighty physicists gathered in Manchester on 6 and 7 April to discuss the future of the LHCb experiment. The LHCb collaboration is currently constructing a significant upgrade to its detector, which w...
Read article 'ATLAS explores the dark side of matter'
Astrophysics and cosmology have established that about 80% of the mass in the universe consists of dark matter. Dark matter and normal matter interact gravitationally, and they may also interact weakl...
Read article 'ALICE probes small-system dynamics with charm production at the LHC'
The first p–Pb data-taking campaign at the LHC was undertaken as a test of the initial state of heavy-ion collisions (CERN Courier March 2014 p17 and CERN Courier October 2013 p17), and surprisingly...
Read article 'MoEDAL releases new mass limits for the production of monopoles'
As a monopole approaches a coil its magnetic charge drives an electrical current which continues to flow after the monopole has passed if the wire is superconducting.
Read article 'BEPCII reaches its design luminosity'
A new luminosity record at the charm-tau energy region was recently broken again by the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII). The new record, 1 × 1033 cm–2s–1 at 1.89 GeV beam energy...
Read article 'Protons accelerated to PeV energies'
The HESS collaboration has now found evidence that there is a "Pevatron" in the central 33 light-years of the Milky Way.
Read article 'The LHC: Run 2 has restarted'
At the end of March, the LHC opened its doors to allow particles to travel around the ring for the first time since the year-end technical stop began in December 2015. Progress was good, and the phase...
Read article 'At the heart of every LHC collision'
Understanding production cross-sections and their evolution as a function of √s are important components to understanding the measurements performed by ATLAS.
Read article 'ALICE finds a new source of charmonium'
The ALICE collaboration has studied the production of charmonium – bound states of charm and anti-charm quarks – in hadronic as well as in ultra-peripheral collisions of lead nuclei at √sNN = ...
