Professor Todd Huffman tells us about a new technique that could dramatically, and simply, increase the sensitivity of ATLAS detectors to B hadrons.
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Do solar neutrinos impact light dark matter searches?
New research from the University of Adelaide suggests neutrinos could seriously affect dark matter detection experiments.
An interview with Stephen King, physicist
“In a nutshell, we live in exciting times where theory and experiment are working hand in hand in particle physics towards revealing the answers to the deep and pressing questions left unanswered by the Standard Model.”
Image of the week: a collision at 2,760,000,000,000 eV
That’s a lot of electron volts.
Sir Tejinder Virdee: an interview with the IOP Glazebrook Medal winner 2015
Alongside a knighthood from the Queen in 2014, Sir Tejinder has won a raft of awards. We find out more about the man behind the mind, the importance of the Large Hadron Collider and what inspired him to become the successful physicist he is today.
LHCb experiment reports experimental evidence of pentaquark states
The CERN collaboration’s latest paper on the arxiv shows evidence of a new form of matter.
IOP Manchester: LEGO, a short circuit, and creative students
The joint group meeting of the IOP’s particle, nuclear and astrophysics sections took place this week at the University of Manchester, UK. I was lucky enough to be in the crux of things as the conference developed.
APFEL Web and parton distribution functions
A helping hand for particle physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
LHC scientists look forward to big switch-on in May
Researchers discuss the aim to ‘break’ the most successful theory in particle physics in a new BBC report.