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Fermilab seeks new boss after Lia Merminga resigns as director

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

Particle and nuclear news

UK particle physicist Mark Thomson selected as next CERN boss

CERN celebrates 70 years at the helm of particle physics in lavish ceremony

Estonia becomes first Baltic state to join CERN

Research headlines

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

Experimental data back-up importance of entanglement

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”

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

Simulations of a spherical target at NIF, showing the convergent shocks delivered to the fusion plasma

Optimization algorithm gives laser fusion a boost

Simulations suggest that iterative technique could increase the energy output of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion

Nuclear shapes revealed in high-energy collisions

New technique sits on the border of nuclear and particle physics

Image showing a neutron (represented by a glowing ball of rainbow-coloured spheres) decaying (represented by a partial Feynman diagram for a decay into a proton, electron and antineutrino via the weak force). Puzzle pieces labelled with a neutron bottle and a neutron beam float nearby against a black background containing more puzzle pieces

Physicists propose new solution to the neutron lifetime puzzle

Different neutron states could explain why different experiments produce different figures for how long neutrons survive before decaying

Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing

From the Higgs boson at CERN to nuclear reactions inside stars, who doesn’t love particle and nuclear physics? There’s so much exciting work going on in both fields, which is why we’re bringing you this new free-to-read digital issue of the Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing.

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

Hamish Johnston picks his favourite articles of the year

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

Fractal art created from particle paths in the Large Hadron Collider

Mark Thomson and Jung Cao: a changing of the guard in particle physics

Two significant appointments mark a new era for global high-energy physics

Two distinct descriptions of nuclei unified for the first time

Hybrid approach focuses on short-range-correlated nucleon pairs

Cosmic antimatter could be created by annihilating WIMPs

Detection of antideuterons and antihelium could help hone dark-matter models

How a next-generation particle collider could unravel the mysteries of the Higgs boson

Tulika Bose, Philip Burrows and Tara Shears discuss proposals for the next big particle collider

Mountaintop observations of gamma-ray glow could shed light on origins of lightning

Electric fields near Earth’s surface are stronger than expected

Enigmatic particle might be a molecular pentaquark

Decay rate of exotic hadron suggests it comprises five quarks

Tokamak Energy developing fusion technology

Fusion, the Web and electric planes: how spin-offs from big science are transforming the world

James McKenzie looks at some of the unexpected spin-offs from big science

‘Sometimes nature will surprise us.’ Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux on eureka moments and the future of neutrino physics

Particle physicist Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux talks about how the next generation of neutrino experiments will test the boundaries of the Standard Model

Positronium gas is laser-cooled to one degree above absolute zero

New cooling technique could help reveal physics beyond the Standard Model

UK reveals next STEPs toward prototype fusion power plant

Engineers and physicists have met to discuss the challenges and opportunities of building a practical fusion power plant in the UK

The "Maxwell’s demon cooling double trap" developed by the BASE collaboration can cool antiprotons very quickly

Improved antiproton trap could shed more light on antimatter-matter asymmetry

Maxwell's demon cooling trap measures the magnetic moment of antiprotons with higher precision than ever before

Extremely large facility under construction

Fusion’s public-relations drive is obscuring the challenges that lie ahead

Guy Matthews says that the focus on public relations is masking the challenges of commercializing nuclear fusion

Quark distribution in light–heavy mesons is mapped using innovative calculations

Form factors can be tested by collider experiments

LUX-ZEPLIN ‘digs deeper’ for dark-matter WIMPs

Announcement makes us pine for the Black Hills

Heavy exotic antinucleus gives up no secrets about antimatter asymmetry

Antihyperhydrogen-4 is observed by the Star Collaboration

Abdus Salam: honouring the first Muslim Nobel-prize-winning scientist

Claudia de Rham and Ian Walmsley pay tribute to the contributions of the great theorist Abdus Salam

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