Category: Physics

  • ISOLDE scores a first with laser spectroscopy of short-lived radioactive molecules

    ISOLDE scores a first with laser spectroscopy of short-lived radioactive molecules

    The result represents an essential step towards using these molecules for fundamental physics research and beyond

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  • ASACUSA researchers create and study new exotic atom at PSI

    ASACUSA researchers create and study new exotic atom at PSI

    Further studies could be used to test the Standard Model of particle physics

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  • ALPHA reports first measurements of certain quantum effects in antimatter

    ALPHA reports first measurements of certain quantum effects in antimatter

    The measurements are consistent with predictions for “normal” matter and pave the way for future precision studies

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  • Thirty years of LEP’s Z0 line shape

    Thirty years ago this week, the four experiments at CERN’s LEP collider published the first of their famous results: the Z0 line shape, which told us that there are three, and only three, families of fundamental particles in nature

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  • New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

    New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

    ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far

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  • Lessons from Granada

    The Granada symposium stimulated much lively discussion on the future of particle physics

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  • The case for future colliders

    With the update of the European strategy for particle physics underway, it’s timely to examine the case for a future collider to follow the LHC

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  • Moriond feels the strong force

    Moriond feels the strong force

    Pentaquarks, charmed beauty particles and more from the Moriond conference’s second week, which is devoted to studies of the strong nuclear force

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  • Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

    Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

    The latest experimental data provide more stringent tests of the Standard Model and of rare phenomena of the microworld

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  • LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    The LHCb collaboration has observed a phenomenon known as CP violation in the decays of a particle known as a D0 meson for the first time

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