Tag: Scientists
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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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World’s first crabbing of a proton beam
CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC
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First cosmic-ray results from CALET telescope on ISS
Having docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 August 2015, CALET is carrying out a full science programme
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First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei
Geneva, 8 May 2013. An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN1 has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, “pear” shapes. The observations contradict some existing nuclear theories and will require others to be amended. The results are published in the journal Nature on 8 May 2013. Most nuclei have the