Category: Physics

  • Looking back on a good year for physics

    With the accelerator complex having shut down for the year on 28 November, now is a good moment to take stock of the healthy position of our research. This year saw a wealth of new results across the programme. At the LHC, Run 1 and 2 data continue to deliver a rich seam of results.

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  • CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion dark matter

    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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  • ATLAS measures Higgs boson’s decay width

    ATLAS measures Higgs boson’s decay width

    The decay width is linked to the particle’s lifetime and if found to deviate from its predicted value could indicate the presence of new physics

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  • First Run 3 physics result by CMS

    First Run 3 physics result by CMS

    CMS measured the top-quark pair production cross section

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  • ALICE explores the hidden charm of quark–gluon plasma

    ALICE explores the hidden charm of quark–gluon plasma

    The ALICE collaboration shows that different bound states of a charm quark and its antimatter counterpart are differently modified by quark–gluon plasma, opening new avenues for studying this special state of matter and its effects

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  • ALICE pins down hypermatter properties

    ALICE pins down hypermatter properties

    The collaboration’s latest study of a “strange”, unstable nucleus known as the hypertriton offers new insight into the particle interactions that may take place at the hearts of neutron stars

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  • Mapping out the future of high-energy physics in the United States

    On 17 July 2022, hundreds of US high-energy physicists, along with colleagues from all over the world, gathered at the University of Washington in Seattle for a ten-day meeting to take one of the final steps in the latest US high-energy physics (HEP) community planning exercise. These exercises, hosted by the Division of Particles and

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  • ATLAS measures joint polarisation of carriers of the weak force

    Joint-polarisation measurements of the W and Z bosons provide new opportunities to look for physics beyond the Standard Model

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  • 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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