Category: Physics
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Max Klein (1951 – 2024)
Max Klein(1951 – 2024) — Born in Berlin, Max earned his Diploma in Physics in 1973 from Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB, East Germany, GDR), with a thesis on low-energy heavy-ion physics. He received his PhD in 1977 from the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in
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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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ALICE does the double slit
Using collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern akin to that of the famous double-slit experiment
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NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles
CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories
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AMBER releases its first results
The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter
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ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data
The ATLAS collaboration has released its first results from searches for new physics phenomena conducted with data from Run 3 of the LHC
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LHCb investigates the properties of one of physics’ most puzzling particles
The particle, known as χc1(3872), has fascinated physicists for years. Now, the LHCb collaboration is closer to finding out what it is made up of
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LHCb investigates the rare Σ+→pμ+μ- decay
The rarest hyperon decay ever observed
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Going the extra mile to squeeze supersymmetry out of CMS data
Re-analysing LHC Run 2 data with cutting-edge analysis techniques allowed CMS physicists to address an old discrepancy
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Hans Joachim Specht (1936 – 2024)
Hans Joachim Specht(1936 – 2024) — Hans Joachim Specht, one of the founders of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics and a pioneering figure in hadron cancer therapy, passed away on 20 May 2024, at the age of 87. A graduate of the University of Munich and ETH Zurich, and full Professor at the University of Heidelberg for