Read article 'Long-lived particles gather interest'
Long-lived particles gather interest
The long-lived particle community marked five years of stretching the limits of searches for new physics with its ninth and best-attended workshop yet.
Read article 'Long-lived particles gather interest'
Read article 'ANAIS challenges DAMA dark-matter claim'
ANAIS challenges DAMA dark-matter claim
First results from the ANAIS experiment show no annual modulation, in conflict with longstanding results from the DAMA experiment.
Read article 'Tooling up to hunt dark matter'
Tooling up to hunt dark matter
The TOOLS 2020 conference attracted around 200 phenomenologists and experimental physicists to work on numerical tools for dark-matter models, and more.
Read article 'In search of WISPs'
In search of WISPs
Experiments such as MADMAX, IAXO and ALPS II are expanding the search for axions and other weakly interacting ‘slim’ particles that could hail from far above the TeV scale.
Read article 'A long-lived paradigm shift'
A long-lived paradigm shift
Experimentalists and theorists met from 16 to 19 November for the eighth workshop of the LHC's long-lived particles community.
Read article 'Strong interest in feeble interactions'
Strong interest in feeble interactions
The FIPs 2020 workshop was structured around portals that may link the Standard Model to a rich dark sector: axions, dark photons, dark scalars and heavy neutral leptons.
Read article 'Cornering WIMPs with ATLAS'
Cornering WIMPs with ATLAS
The ATLAS collaboration has released new monojet and dijet searches for WIMPs based on the full Run-2 data set.
Read article 'ALICE’s dark side'
ALICE’s dark side
Precision measurements of the production and annihilation of light antinuclei are sharpening the search for dark matter.
Read article 'LHCb explores dark-sector confinement'
LHCb explores dark-sector confinement
LHCb has probed hidden-valley scenarios which exhibit confinement in an analogous way to how the strong nuclear force confines quarks.
Read article 'Researchers grapple with XENON1T excess'
Researchers grapple with XENON1T excess
The excess could be due to a difficult-to-constrain tritium background, solar axions or solar neutrinos with a Majorana nature, says the collaboration.
