Ana Lopes

Ana began working at CERN in 2018 as a Science Writer for the CERN Communications group.
91 results

Cosmic count exceeds expectation

The AMS detector on board the International Space Station has found more cosmic rays made of deuterons than expected

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13 August, 2024
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13 August, 2024

Bringing black hole jets down to Earth

The Fireball collaboration has used CERN’s HiRadMat facility to produce an analogue of the jets of matter and antimatter that stream out of some black holes and neutron stars

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13 June, 2024
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13 June, 2024

MoEDAL zeroes in on magnetic monopoles

The latest searches conducted by the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider considerably shrink the theoretical arenas in which the hunt for magnetic monopoles can continue

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26 April, 2024
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26 April, 2024

Searching for new asymmetry between matter and antimatter

LHCb has conducted a new search for matter–antimatter asymmetry using its full data sets from the first and second runs of the LHC

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11 April, 2024

SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams

The NA61 experiment at CERN, also known as SHINE, has made new measurements that will help physicists work out the content of neutrino beams used in experiments in the US

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07 June, 2023
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07 June, 2023

ALICE sees the ridge in simplest collisions yet

The observation brings physicists a step closer to finding the origin of collective phenomena in small collision systems

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31 March, 2023

W boson turns 40

Forty years ago today, physicists at CERN announced to the world that they had discovered the electrically charged carrier of the weak force, one of nature’s four fundamental forces

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25 January, 2023
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25 January, 2023

CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion dark matter

The CAPP axion haloscope at the CAST experiment has hunted for axions from the Milky Way’s “halo” of dark matter, and has narrowed down the theoretical space in which to look for these hypothetical particles

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02 December, 2022
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02 December, 2022

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry with the Higgs boson

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have searched for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the interaction between the Higgs boson and the tau lepton

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23 June, 2022

CMS tries out the seesaw

The collaboration has put the seesaw model of neutrino mass to a new test

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04 May, 2022
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04 May, 2022

Homing in on the Higgs boson's interaction with the charm quark

New ATLAS and CMS analyses place tight limits on the strength of the Higgs boson's interaction with the charm quark

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11 March, 2022

MoEDAL gets a new detector

The new detector, known as MAPP, will increase the physics reach of the MoEDAL experiment and the Large Hadron Collider

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28 March, 2022
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28 March, 2022