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Christine Sutton describes the pioneering 1956 experiment that proved the existence of the neutrino
How is it that loosely bound objects are observed in high-energy nuclear collisions? The ALICE collaboration finds out
A new experiment at Fermilab will look for the neutrinoless transformation of a muon into an electron
Austin Ball of the CMS collaboration looks back at the vast amount of work done during LS1 and some of the challenges that arose along the way
An international approach for a new 1000 km experiment
The Quark Working Group highlights unsolved problems, discusses the latest data, and suggests new analyses in quarkonium physics
A team in Japan has used advanced ISOL techniques to measure the energy needed to remove an electron from lawrencium, which lives for only 27 seconds
Work continues apace for the high-luminosity upgrade for the LHC 10 years from now
Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics has started a new future in rare isotopes
The CMS collaboration recently completed the full Run 1 data analysis in each of the most important channels for the decay and production of the Higgs
For the first time a collider has brought ions of helium-3 into collision with gold nuclei
ALICE has used a new technique to look at the size of the final state at ‘freeze-out’ in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions