Read article 'An improved measurement of θ13 from Daya Bay'
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has recently published a new measurement of the disappearance of electron antineutrinos emitted by nuclear reactors. The observation improves the precision of ...
Read article 'Massive black-hole pair is on fast-merger track'
Earlier this year, astronomers discovered what appeared to be a pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) circling towards a collision, which would send out a burst of gravitational waves. A new study ...
Read article 'Zeroing in on Higgs boson properties'
The combined signal yield relative to the Standard Model expectation is measured to be 1.09±0.11.
Read article 'So, farewell then…'
After nearly 13 years as editor of CERN Courier, I am stepping down as I head off into retirement. I would like to thank the many contributors and also the team at IOP Publishing who bring such a prof...
Read article 'STAR tracker snares heavy flavours'
Heavy quarks are important probes of the quark–gluon plasma that is produced when relativistic heavy ions collide. Because of a mass effect, it has been argued that heavy quarks lose less energy thr...
Read article 'Positrons catch a wave at SLAC'
In a study reported in Nature, a team working at the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET) at SLAC has shown that the high electric-field gradients possible in plasma can be har...
Read article 'ALICE in Vienna: from antinuclei to quark–gluon plasma'
The 2015 edition of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2015), which took place in Vienna in July (“Vienna hosts a high-energy particle waltz”), provid...
Read article 'CMS observes simultaneous production of top quarks and Z bosons'
The measured cross-sections are also used to place the most stringent limits to date on models of new physics employing any of four different dimension-six operators.
Read article 'Searches for new phenomena with LHC Run-2'
After demonstrating a good understanding of the detector and observing most of the Standard Model particles using the first data of LHC Run 2 collected in July (CERN Courier September 2015 p8), the A...
Read article 'ALICE goes forward with the ridge in pPb collisions'
One of the hottest debates at the LHC is the potential emergence of collective effects in proton–lead (pPb) collisions, prompted by the discovery of double ridge structures in angular correlatio...
