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MoEDAL bags a first

The MoEDAL experiment has conducted the first search at a particle collider for magnetic monopoles produced through the Schwinger mechanism

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02 July, 2021
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02 July, 2021

Speeding up machine learning for particle physics

A new technique speeds up deep neural networks for selecting proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider for further analysis

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21 June, 2021

Leptoquarks, the Higgs boson and the muon’s magnetism

A new study shows that a class of new unknown particles that could account for the muon’s magnetism, known as leptoquarks, could also affect the Higgs boson’s transformation into muons

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14 June, 2021

ALICE finds that charm hadronisation differs at the LHC

New measurements by the ALICE collaboration show that the way charm quarks form hadrons in proton-proton collisions differs significantly from expectations based on electron collider measurements

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Physics
10 June, 2021

LHCb measures tiny mass difference between particles

The result is a milestone in the study of how a particle known as a D0 meson changes from matter into antimatter and back

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08 June, 2021

FASER catches first candidate collider neutrinos

The result paves the way for studies of high-energy neutrinos at current and future particle colliders

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Physics
02 June, 2021

RADES joins the hunt for dark matter

One of the latest additions to the CAST experiment has set a new limit on the strength of the interaction between photons and hypothetical dark-matter particles called axions

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25 May, 2021
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25 May, 2021

Why precision luminosity measurements matter

Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments have performed luminosity measurements with spectacular precision

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Physics
12 May, 2021

Connecting the smallest and largest scales

The first edition of the EuCAPT annual symposium on 5-7 May saw hundreds of physicists discuss the latest opportunities and challenges in theoretical astroparticle physics and cosmology

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Physics
10 May, 2021

NA64 sets bounds on how much new X bosons could change the electron’s magnetism

The result cannot explain an apparent tension with the Standard Model in the electron’s magnetic moment

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Physics
29 April, 2021