Updates: May 2012
Two beautiful new particles
— The LHCb collaboration has observed two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle, confirming Standard-Model predictions
AMS reaches 17 billion cosmic-ray events
— Experts from the AMS collaboration operate the detector round the clock from the Payload Operation Control Center at CERN
Laser acceleration, now with added fibre
— Lasers consume too much power and can't sustain accelerating particles long enough to produce collisions. ICAN hopes to change all that
LHCb discovers two excited states for the Λb beauty particle
— The Standard Model predicts the existence of these new states but this is the first time they have been confirmed in experiments
CERN computing looks to the future
— A new data centre in Hungary and the 4th phase of Openlab promise improvements to CERN's computing infrastructure
