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At ICHEP in Valencia, Spain, all four LHC experiments presented new results from the LHC’s first run. Run 2 physics holds much promise
As of today, LHCb has new management
ATLAS presented new results at the Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) Conference in Columbia University, New York, 2-7 June
Greig Cowan of the University of Edinburgh (UK) presents the latest on exotic mesons from LHCb. Watch the webcast at 11am CET today
The new Building SL53 on CERN’s Cessy site in France is ready to welcome visitors
At Quark Matter 2014 this week in Germany, the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments are presenting the latest results from the LHC's heavy-ion programme
A new subdetector has been added to the very heart of ATLAS, closest to the beam pipe where particle collisions will occur
CLOUD experiment shows that biogenic vapours emitted by trees and oxidised in the atmosphere have significant impact on formation of clouds
The LHCb collaboration today published an unambiguous observation of an exotic particle that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model
An experiment conducted at CERN's ISOLDE facility may help scientists better to understand the collapse of massive stars
At the Moriond conference CMS presented the best constraint yet of the Higgs boson “width”, a parameter that determines the particle’s lifetime