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Top-quark pairs at ATLAS could shed light on the early universe

Photo of the Main Spectrometer at the KATRIN experiment during installation of its inner electrode system. The photo is taken inside the experiment and shows a tunnel-like interior with electronics panels covering every visible surface. At the centre is a metal platform with scaffolding and ladders. Three people in clean-room protective clothing are standing on the platform.

KATRIN sets tighter limit on neutrino mass

New maximum for notoriously shy particle is 0.45 eV – 1 million times less than the electron

Helium nanobubble measurements shed light on origins of heavy elements in the universe

Particle-accelerator study focuses on the r-process thought to be responsible for forming elements heavier than iron

Particle and nuclear news

CERN releases plans for the ‘most extraordinary instrument ever built’

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak smashes fusion confinement record

Fermilab seeks new boss after Lia Merminga resigns as director

Research headlines

Photon collisions in dying stars could create neutrons for heavy elements

Simulations shed light on the r-process of nucleosynthesis

Claudio Emma and Brendan O’Shea examining experimental apparatus at FACET-II

Ultrashort electron beam sets new power record

Femtosecond-long, petawatt-peak power beam could be used to probe previously inaccessible phenomena in materials science, quantum physics and even astrophysics

A physicist holding a nuclear photovoltaic battery

Photovoltaic battery runs on nuclear waste

Device could be used to power microelectronics like microchips

Graph showing a neutral current interaction in the NOvA Far Detector

Sterile neutrinos are a no-show (again)

Hypothetical fourth neutrino flavour is absent from new data from Fermilab's NOvA experiment

Composite image showing photos of PTB's ion traps and the PENTATRAP Penning trap mass spectrometer at MPIK in Heidelberg superimposed over a grid of blue, black and pink squares labelled with the name and mass number of different isotopes. Some of the black squares are raised, and these are the ytterbium isotopes the team studied

Atomic anomaly explained without recourse to hypothetical ‘dark force’

Effect observed in 2020 arises from changes in nuclear structure, not new physics

CO₂ laser enables long-range detection of radioactive material

Remote detection of radioactive material could play an important role in nuclear disaster response and nuclear security

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Fusion industry meets in London to discuss ‘one of the economic opportunities of the century’

The inaugural Fusion Fest by Economist Impact featured more than 450 attendees from around the world

A theoretical physicist’s bucket list, 10 years later: Jim Gates on the graviton, quantum information and the scientific climate in the US

Jim Gates updates his 2014 bucket list, highlighting the key breakthroughs in physics he would like to see happen before he dies

**Exploring CERN: Physics World visits the world’s leading particle-physics lab**

Margaret Harris reports back about LHC upgrades, antimatter advances and future colliders

Illustration of the production and incorporation of cosmogenic beryllium-10 into ferromanganese crusts. The main image shows beryllium atoms (represented by orange dots) being produced in an aurora-drenched sky and then falling down to the bottom of the ocean. An inset image on the right contains a photo of an ocean crust sample and a graph showing a peak in beryllium-10 abundance 10 million years ago.

Radioactive anomaly appears in the deep ocean

Unexplained peak in the abundance of beryllium-10 in ferromanganese ocean crusts could become an independent time marker for geological dating

The quest for better fusion reactors is putting a new generation of superconductors to the test

How do we predict the lifetime of superconductors when they are subjected to conditions that cannot yet be recreated anywhere on Earth?

Incoming CERN director-general Mark Thomson outlines his future priorities

Mark Thomson will play a big part in planning what comes next after the Large Hadron Collider

Ultrahigh-energy neutrino detection opens a new window on the universe

Particle could have been created by a blazar or a cosmic collision

Artist's image showing blue and red spikes (representing the quasiparticles) emerging from two parallel dark grey honeycomb-patterned surfaces (representing carbon) and pairing up

New class of quasiparticle appears in bilayer graphene

"Fractional excitons" form in 2D carbon structure at high magnetic fields

Mark Thomson looks to the future of CERN and particle physics

CERN’s next director-general is our podcast guest

SMART spherical tokamak produces its first plasma

The SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak operates with a 'negative triangularity' configuration

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String theory may be inevitable as a unified theory of physics, calculations suggest

Physicists explore particle scattering at tiny length scales

Antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4 is spotted at CERN

Observation backs up the statistical hadronization model

Solid-state nuclear clocks brought closer by physical vapour deposition

Fabrication technique reduces amount of expensive isotope needed

Entanglement entropy in protons affects high-energy collisions, calculations reveal

Experimental data back-up importance of entanglement

Particle and nuclear physics highlights in 2024: celebrating the past and looking to the future

Hamish Johnston picks his favourite articles of the year

The Central Neutron Detector at Jefferson Lab

Inner workings of the neutron illuminated by Jefferson Lab experiment

Future studies using neutron detector could help resolve nucleon “spin crisis”

Large group of people celebrating at CERN

Unclear nature: anthropological study of CERN is a missed opportunity to bridge physics and social sciences

Achintya Rao reviews Unfinished Nature: Particle Physics at CERN by Arpita Roy

Nuclear shape transitions visualized for the first time

Physicists say the LHC could provide evidence to back up theoretical findings on how shapes of atomic nuclei change under extreme conditions

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