The Higgs boson reveals its affinity for the top quark New results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, corroborating our understanding of the Higgs and setting constraints on new physics. Geneva,…
Major work starts to boost the luminosity of the LHC Geneva, 15 June 2018. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially entering a new stage. Today, a ground-breaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC): a new milestone in CERN’s history. By…
Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks. The finding, presented today at CERN by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is…
Serbia joins CERN as its 23rd Member State Geneva, 24 March 2019. Today, CERN welcomes Serbia as its 23rd Member State, following receipt of formal notification from UNESCO that Serbia has acceded to the CERN Convention. “Investing in scientific research is important for the development of our economy…
CERN: Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe Geneva, 19 June 2020. Today, the CERN Council announced that it had unanimously updated the strategy intended to guide the future of particle physics in Europe within the global landscape. The updated recommendations highlight the scientific impact of particle physics…
INTERVIEW: Dr Milivoj Belić ‘At the end of my active career as a physicist, I still think that one should not confine themselves to their field only, but broaden the horizons and search for new challenges’, says Dr Milivoj Belić, a full professor at…
RESEARCH: Novel work on repulsive interaction of photons At the beginning of June, a paper titled ’ Repulsive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium’ was published in the renowned journal Nature Physics, with one of the authors being Dr Branislav Jelenković, a researcher of the Institute of Physics,…
NEWS: The Science Fund has approved funding of the ATLAS artificial intelligence project A group of researchers from the Institute of Physics, Belgrade participates in one of 12 projects in the field of artificial intelligence which, among 70 submitted proposals, have been approved for funding by the Science Fund of the Republic of…
COMPETITIONS: Extraordinary success of the students from Serbia at the European Physics Olympiad The students from Serbia have achieved extraordinary success at the 4th European Physics Olympiad, winning two gold, one silver and two bronze medals. The European Physics Olympiad (EuPhO) was held remotely in the period 20-26 July, hosting more than 250…
