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The two general-purpose LHC experiments have unveiled analyses of data collected in 2015 from proton collisions at an energy of 13 TeV
The new HIE-ISOLDE accelerator is up and running, increasing the beam energy of ISOLDE, CERN’s nuclear physics facility
For Halloween meet CERN’s very own WITCH experiment at ISOLDE, as it nears the end of its data analysis
There were presentations from ALICE, CMS, ATLAS and LHCb at the international conference on ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions this week
How is it that loosely bound objects are observed in high-energy nuclear collisions? The ALICE collaboration finds out
The sensor on the NA62 Gigtracker has a cooling system that might become the precursor to a completely new detector technique
The proof-of-principle experiment aims to use protons to generate powerful wakefields to accelerate an electron beam
The LHCb experiment has measured decays of B mesons that have shown deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope reached the ISS on 24 August. It will perform long-exposure observations of high-energy cosmic radiation
The comparison, published today in <em>Nature Physics</em>, confirms a fundamental symmetry of nature to an unprecedented precision for light nuclei
The world particle-physics community has convened in Vienna for the 2015 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics