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LHCb weighs up the Z

New measurement of the mass of the Z boson showcases the Large Hadron Collider’s growing role in precision physics

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Physics
06 June, 2025
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06 June, 2025

ALICE eyes the cosmos

New data from the ALICE experiment, collected when no particle beams were circulating in the LHC during pauses in Run 2, may contribute to solving a puzzle surrounding cosmic muons

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Physics
02 June, 2025
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02 June, 2025

Early-career researcher input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics

The organisers of the early-career researchers’ white paper for the European Strategy for Particle Physics coordinated a collective effort that provided input for the Strategy update

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Physics
22 May, 2025
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22 May, 2025

The May/June 2025 issue of the CERN Courier is out

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Physics
22 May, 2025
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22 May, 2025

AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm

The CMS collaboration presents a new search for the decay of a Higgs boson into charm quarks, bringing physicists closer to unravelling how this unique particle endows matter with mass

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19 May, 2025
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19 May, 2025

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei

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Physics
08 May, 2025

Hans Gutbrod (1942 – 2025)

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Physics
15 April, 2025
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15 April, 2025

ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism

The detection of longitudinally polarised W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles

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Physics
10 April, 2025

CMS finds unexpected excess of top quarks

Data from the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reveals an intriguing excess of top-quark pairs, hinting at the first observation of a composite particle with unique properties

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Physics
03 April, 2025

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

Surprising results from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN show that this so-called isospin asymmetry could point to gaps in physicists’ understanding of how quarks and gluons combine

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Physics
28 March, 2025