Ana Lopes

Ana began working at CERN in 2018 as a Science Writer for the CERN Communications group.
90 results

NA62 spots two potential instances of rare particle decay

The NA62 experiment has detected two candidate events for the decay of a positively charged kaon into a pion and a neutrino–antineutrino pair

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Physics
23 September, 2019

Sensor used at CERN could help gravitational-wave hunters

A new seismic device developed by CERN and JINR is now being tested at the Advanced Virgo detector

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Engineering
30 August, 2019

n_TOF facility explores neutron imaging

The n_TOF facility is investigating the potential of one of its neutron beams for imaging the interior of materials

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Physics
29 July, 2019

NA64 casts light on dark photons

The NA64 collaboration has placed new limits on the interaction between a photon and its hypothetical dark-matter counterpart

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Physics
22 July, 2019
Physics
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22 July, 2019

Bottomonium particles don’t go with the flow

The first measurement, by the ALICE collaboration, of an elliptic-shaped flow for bottomonium particles could help shed light on the early universe

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Physics
16 July, 2019

KWISP detector searches for dark energy from the Sun

First results are in for the KWISP detector’s hunt for hypothetical dark-energy particles from the Sun

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Physics
03 July, 2019

ATLAS homes in on magnetic monopoles

The ATLAS collaboration has placed some of the tightest limits yet on the production rate of hypothetical particles known as magnetic monopoles

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Physics
14 June, 2019
Physics
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14 June, 2019

Four decades of gluons

How a walk through CERN’s corridors helped lead to the discovery of the gluon forty years ago at the DESY laboratory

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Physics
18 June, 2019
Physics
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18 June, 2019

ATLAS surveys new supersymmetry territory

New studies from the ATLAS collaboration search for hypothetical “supersymmetric” particles around uncharted corners

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Physics
23 May, 2019

CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson

The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon

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Physics
24 May, 2019

AEgIS makes positronium for antimatter gravity experiments

The AEgIS collaboration at CERN has found a new way of making long-lived positronium atoms for antimatter gravity experiments

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Physics
05 March, 2019

LHCb catches fast-spinning charmonium particle

The new particle, dubbed the ψ3(1D), was observed in data recorded between 2011 and 2018

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Physics
26 February, 2019