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The new particle, dubbed the ψ3(1D), was observed in data recorded between 2011 and 2018
The first result to emerge from the HIE-ISOLDE accelerator is the confirmation that the tin-132 nucleus belongs to the doubly magic group of nuclei
The ALPHA-g and GBAR experiments have received their first beams of antiprotons
The ATLAS collaboration presents its latest search for heavy Majorana neutrinos
From 4 to 9 June, some 450 researchers gathered in Bologna, Italy for the sixth Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) conference
A new measurement by the LHCb collaboration of the lifetime of a particle known as the charmed omega is inconsistent with previous estimates
The LHCb collaboration has discovered two new baryons and potentially also a new tetraquark
ATLAS searches for vector-like top quarks that could explain the Higgs boson’s small mass
A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate
The ALPHA collaboration has observed a new electronic transition in the antihydrogen atom
Researchers at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have used an ultrasensitive variant of NMR spectroscopy to study DNA interactions
The first observation of a neutron-star merger by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has allowed researchers to improve the theory of quark matter