Category: Physics

  • CMS measures rare particle decay with high precision

    Using LHC Run 2 data, CMS has precisely measured the rare decay of strange B-mesons to muon-antimuon pairs. While its properties agree with Standard Model predictions, it may provide clues to new discoveries in Run 3

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  • LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

    LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

    The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”

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  • ATLAS and CMS release results of most comprehensive studies yet of Higgs boson’s properties

    ATLAS and CMS release results of most comprehensive studies yet of Higgs boson’s properties

    The collaborations have used the largest samples of proton–proton collision data recorded so far by the experiments to study the unique particle in unprecedented detail

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  • The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery

    The Higgs boson, ten years after its discovery

    The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider and the progress made since then, have allowed physicists to make tremendous steps forward in our understanding of the universe

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  • LHC Run 3: physics at record energy starts tomorrow

    LHC Run 3: physics at record energy starts tomorrow

    The Large Hadron Collider is ready to once again start delivering proton collisions to experiments, this time at an unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, marking the start of the accelerator’s third run of data taking for physics

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  • Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry with the Higgs boson

    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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  • CMS on the lookout for new physics

    CMS on the lookout for new physics

    The CMS experiment awaits LHC Run 3 to explore several analyses showing small disagreements with theory expectations

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  • CLOUD discovers new way by which aerosols rapidly form and grow at high altitude

    CLOUD discovers new way by which aerosols rapidly form and grow at high altitude

    The resultant particles quickly spread around the globe, potentially influencing Earth’s climate on an intercontinental scale

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  • ALICE makes first direct observation of a fundamental effect in particle physics

    ALICE makes first direct observation of a fundamental effect in particle physics

    The observation provides direct experimental access to the mass of an elementary particle known as the charm quark

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  • CMS tries out the seesaw

    CMS tries out the seesaw

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

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