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ALPHA experiment takes antimatter to a new level

The ALPHA collaboration has observed a new electronic transition in the antihydrogen atom

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Physics
22 August, 2018

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

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Physics
08 August, 2018

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

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Physics
19 July, 2018

LHC news from Seoul

The main LHC collaborations present their latest findings at ICHEP 2018

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Physics
10 July, 2018
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10 July, 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

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Physics
06 July, 2018
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Opinion
06 July, 2018

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

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Physics
06 July, 2018
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06 July, 2018

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

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Physics
14 June, 2018
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14 June, 2018

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

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Physics
07 June, 2018

Higgs boson comes out on top

New results from CMS and ATLAS experiments reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark

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Physics
04 June, 2018
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04 June, 2018

XENON1T reports results of dark matter WIMPs search

Researchers from the XENON1T experiment at LNGS, Italy, present results using 1300 kg of cold Xe atoms to detect dark matter

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Physics
30 May, 2018