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Hunting for dark quarks
A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate
Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed
Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.
ALPHA experiment takes antimatter to a new level
The ALPHA collaboration has observed a new electronic transition in the antihydrogen atom
New measurement of particle’s lifetime intrigues physicists
A new measurement by the LHCb collaboration of the lifetime of a particle known as the charmed omega is inconsistent with previous estimates
LHC experiments present latest results at ICHEP
This year’s International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) took place in Seoul, South Korea, on 4–11 July
LHC news from Seoul
The main LHC collaborations present their latest findings at ICHEP 2018
Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs
It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC
ISOLDE mints isotopes of chromium
CERN’s ISOLDE facility has produced neutron-rich chromium isotopes, which have been weighed by the ISOLTRAP precision balance ISOLTRAP
LHCP reports from Bologna
From 4 to 9 June, some 450 researchers gathered in Bologna, Italy for the sixth Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) conference
Neutron stars cast light on quark matter
The first observation of a neutron-star merger by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has allowed researchers to improve the theory of quark matter