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  • Measure for Measure |

    Alberto Moscatelli surveys a series of experiments on the electron g-factor that marked the departure from the Dirac equation and contributed to the development of quantum electrodynamics.

    • Alberto Moscatelli

  • News & Views |

    While axions remain elusive, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope has now reached the interesting region where physics beyond the standard model could be glimpsed.

    • Maurizio Giannotti

  • News & Views |

    An enhanced production of particles with strange quarks has been observed in high-multiplicity proton–proton collisions — an important clue to understand how strange quarks form, and perhaps a hint of the quark–gluon plasma.

    • Francesco Becattini

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Axions are hypothetical light particles that could explain the dark matter. They could be produced in the interior of the Sun and the CERN Axion Solar Telescope sets the best limit on how strongly axions can interact with light.

    • V. Anastassopoulos
    • , S. Aune
    •  & K. Zioutas

  • News & Views |

    A study of Λb baryon decays has provided the first direct experimental evidence that spinning matter and antimatter differ. This result may help us understand the puzzling matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe.

    • Gauthier Durieux
    •  & Yuval Grossman

  • Progress Article |

    Direct dark matter searches are pushing the limits on the scattering of weakly interacting massive particles on normal matter so WIMPs are running out of places to hide.

    • Jianglai Liu
    • , Xun Chen
    •  & Xiangdong Ji

  • Review Article |

    Dark matter could decay into conventional particles leaving behind specific signatures in the gamma rays and cosmic rays. Astronomical observations are used to search for these elusive dark matter footprints.

    • Jan Conrad
    •  & Olaf Reimer

  • Progress Article |

    Beyond the standard model, the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) hypothesis for dark matter is one of the most compelling, and the one being tested at the Large Hadron Collider.

    • Oliver Buchmueller
    • , Caterina Doglioni
    •  & Lian-Tao Wang

  • Article
    | Open Access

    CP violation has deep implications for particle physics and cosmology. Previously observed only in meson decays, signs of CP violation have now been spotted in baryon decays by analysing the proton–proton collision data from the LHCb detector.

    • R. Aaij
    • , B. Adeva
    •  & S. Zucchelli

  • Editorial |

    China is investing in big astronomy and astrophysics projects, but is still debating the way forward in experimental particle physics.

  • Editorial |

    Elementary particles are the building blocks of matter, but there is also a zoo of quasiparticles that are crucial for understanding how this matter behaves.

  • Feature |

    Quasiparticles are an extremely useful concept that provides a more intuitive understanding of complex phenomena in many-body physics. As such, they appear in various contexts, linking ideas across different fields and supplying a common language.

    • Liesbeth Venema
    • , Bart Verberck
    •  & Luke Fleet

  • Measure for Measure |

    Nick van Remortel demystifies natural unit systems — and advises what to do when you see a mass expressed in GeV.

    • Nick van Remortel

  • Measure for Measure |

    The most precise measurements of the atomic masses of the proton and the electron make use of Penning traps, and for the latter, a hydrogen-like ion, as Edmund Myers explains.

    • Edmund G. Myers

  • Editorial |

    A flurry of 'null results' have hit the physics headlines recently. They are only 'null' if you place no value in the information they provide.

  • Progress Article |

    A renaissance of interest in a numerical technique known as the conformal bootstrap is surveyed, and its implications for the determination of critical exponents in a range of spin models is discussed.

    • David Poland
    •  & David Simmons-Duffin

  • News & Views |

    The first results from the NOvA experiment confirm what we already know about neutrino oscillations. As data collection continues we are getting closer to finding the remaining unknown parameters.

    • Ben Still

  • News & Views |

    Three-dimensional rogue waves have been observed in a dusty-plasma system, which provides a wave–particle interaction view on their formation.

    • Jeremiah Williams

  • Letter |

    A magnetotransport study of zirconium pentatelluride now reveals evidence for a chiral magnetic effect, a striking macroscopic manifestation of the quantum and relativistic nature of Weyl semimetals.

    • Qiang Li
    • , Dmitri E. Kharzeev
    •  & T. Valla

  • Editorial |

    After two Nobel prizes, the quest to uncover new physics continues at the Kamioka site in Japan.

  • Research Highlights |

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass".

    • Andrea Taroni

  • News & Views |

    A new measurement from the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider impinges on a puzzle that has been troubling physicists for decades — namely the breaking of the symmetry between matter and antimatter.

    • Robert Kowalewski

  • Editorial |

    Like London buses, you wait for a Weyl then a few come along at once.

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The accurate determination of quark mixing parameters is essential for the understanding of the Standard Model. The LHCb collaboration now reports the coupling strength of the b quark to the u quark through the measurement of a baryonic decay mode.

    • R. Aaij
    • , B. Adeva
    •  & L. Zhong

  • Commentary |

    Research in high-energy physics produces masses of data, demanding extensive computational resources. The scientists responsible for managing these resources are now turning to cloud and high-performance computing.

    • Sergey Panitkin

  • News & Views |

    Photons emitted by extragalactic sources provide an opportunity to test quantum gravity effects that modify the speed of light in vacuum. Studying the arrival times of these cosmic messengers further constrains the energy scales involved.

    • Agnieszka Jacholkowska

  • News & Views |

    The Higgs mechanism is normally associated with high energy physics, but its roots lie in superconductivity. And now there is evidence for a Higgs mode in disordered superconductors near the superconductor–insulator transition.

    • Philip W. Anderson

  • News & Views |

    Dark matter remains experimentally elusive. But what if it is more classical than expected, resembling a spatially varying field? A network of atomic clocks would be able to detect its variations.

    • Rana Adhikari
    • , Paul Hamiton
    •  & Holger Müller

  • Letter |

    A proposal for detecting dark matter originating from light fields rather than particles makes use of existing networks of atomic clocks to measure time discrepancies between clocks that are spatially separated.

    • A. Derevianko
    •  & M. Pospelov

  • Research Highlights |

    The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources."

    • Joerg Heber

  • Research Highlights |

    • Alison Wright

  • News & Views |

    The ALPHA collaboration has provided the clearest evidence yet that antihydrogen is charge neutral. Attention now turns to research that could replace a universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy with one containing both matter and antimatter.

    • Thomas J. Phillips

  • Letter
    | Open Access

    From the manner of its discovery in 2012, it was apparent that the 125 GeV Higgs boson couples to bosons, but does it couple to fermions too? Yes, says the CMS Collaboration at CERN, who present combined evidence of Higgs decay to pairs of bottom quarks and pairs of tau leptons.

  • Research Highlights |

    • Alison Wright

  • News & Views |

    Holographic dualities discovered in string theory may provide methods for extracting the real-time response of quantum systems from numerical simulations performed in imaginary time.

    • Joe Bhaseen

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