Updates
Still making tracks: Eighty years of the positron
— Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle
New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson
— With two and a half times more data analysed than in July last year, ATLAS and CMS find that the new particle looks more and more like a Higgs boson
ATLAS releases animated particle plots
— The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data
LHCb studies particle tipping the matter-antimatter scales
— The LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists
Explain it in 60 seconds: spin
— Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D.
A question of spin for the new boson
— Physicists speaking today at the Moriond conference say that the new particle discovered at CERN last year is looking more and more like a Higgs boson
Ban Ki-moon visits CERN
— On 1 March, UN’s Secretary-General visited CERN first since the Organization was granted Observer status at the UN General Assembly last December.
ATLAS: now under new management
— On 1 March, the ATLAS Collaboration welcomed a new spokesperson, Dave Charlton, and two new deputy spokespersons, Thorsten Wengler and Beate Heinemann
W boson published 30 years ago
— On 24 February 1983 the journal Physics Letters B published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
Colliders Unite: Linear Colliders in new partnership
— The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider
ATLAS in 2012: Building on success
— In a year where the LHC delivered nearly as much data in a week as it did previously in a month, the ATLAS experiment went from strength to strength
Proton-lead run brings new physics reach to LHCb
— In the recent lead-proton run at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time
LHC access required: Time estimate ~ 2 years
— On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period
Knowledge Transfer Fund to support six new projects
— From photonic crystals to fibre-optic sensors, the KT Fund is supporting new initiatives to disseminate technology to society
CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes
— The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies
First three-year LHC running period reaches a conclusion
— At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run
Sounds like CERN
— Sound artist Bill Fontana recorded his first soundscapes at CERN on a 4-day induction visit preceding his residency
Fat antiatoms, laser beams and matter-antimatter asymmetry
— An international team of collaborators are manipulating 'fat' antiatoms at the AEGIS experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator
Long Shutdown 1: Exciting times ahead
— As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the extensive maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown is about to start
Free the quarks: Calculating the strong force
— Forty years ago quarks gained their freedom – at least theoretically – and the modern theory of the strong interaction began to emerge
