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The European Physical Journal (EPJ) is a series of peer-reviewed journals covering the whole spectrum of physics and related interdisciplinary subjects. EPJ is committed to high scientific quality in publishing and is indexed in all main citation databases.
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EPJ H Highlight - Investigating heavy quark physics with the LHCb experiment
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- Published on 15 April 2021

In ten years of operation the LHCb experiment has probed the nature of physics attempting to answer some of the Universe’s most fundamental questions. A new review examines its past achievements and future potential.
A new review published in EPJ H by Clara Matteuzzi, Research Director at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and former tenured professor at the University of Milan, and her colleagues, examines almost three decades of the LHCb experiment – from its conception to operation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – documenting its achievements and future potential.
EPJ H Highlight - Tracking the progress of fusion power through 60 years of neutral particle analysis
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- Published on 14 April 2021

Harnessing the fusion power of the stars requires the control of plasma and a powerful diagnostic tool to analyse it
As the world’s energy demands grow, so too does growing concern over the environmental impact of power production. The need for a safe, clean, and reliable energy source has never been clearer. Fusion power could fulfil such a need. A review paper published in EPJ H examines the 6-decade history of neutral particle analysis (NPA), developed in Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, a vital diagnostic tool used in magnetic plasma confinement devices such as tokamaks that will house the nuclear fusion process and generate the clean energy of the future.
EPJ E Highlight - Micro-environmental influences on artificial micromotors
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- Published on 31 March 2021

New experiments reveal the characteristic ways in which self-propelled ‘Janus particles’ with charged coatings will slide across or move away from charged boundaries in their surrounding environments.
By harvesting energy from their surrounding environments, particles named ‘artificial micromotors’ can propel themselves in specific directions when placed in aqueous solutions. In current research, a popular choice of micromotor is the spherical ‘Janus particle’ – featuring two distinct sides with different physical properties. Until now, however, few studies have explored how these particles interact with other objects in their surrounding microenvironments. In an experiment detailed in EPJ E, researchers in Germany and The Netherlands, led by Larysa Baraban at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, show for the first time how the velocities of Janus particles relate to the physical properties of nearby barriers.
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EPJ A Topical Issue: Heavy and Super-Heavy Nuclei and Elements: Production and Properties
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EPJ A Topical Issue: Light clusters in nuclei and nuclear matter: Nuclear structure and decay, heavy ion collisions, and astrophysics
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EPJ A Topical Issue: The QCD Phase Diagram in Strong Magnetic Fields
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EPJ B Topical Issue: Extreme Value Statistics and Search in Biology: Theory and Simulations
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EPJ B Topical Issue: Evolutionary Game Theory
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EPJ B Topical Issue: Recent progress and emerging trends in Molecular Dynamics
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Advances in Multi-Scale Modelling of Intense Electronic Excitation Processes
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Atoms and Molecules in a Confined Environment
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Low Temperature Plasmas: Processes, Diagnostics and Applications
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Molecular collisions, photoionization and dynamics: honouring Professor Vincent McKoy
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Quantum Aspects of Attoscience
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Spectroscopy of biomolecular ions in vacuo
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EPJ D Topical Issue: “Advances in Physics of Ionized Gases and Spectroscopy of Isolated Complex Systems: from Biomolecules to Space Particles" (2020)
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EPJ Data Science Special Issue on Data Science Perspectives on Economic Crime
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EPJ E Special Issue: Diffusion and Convection in Nature
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Physics and Geometry of Flexible Plates and Shells
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Advances in Computational Methods for Biological Physics
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Disordered, non-equilibrium systems: From supercooled liquids to amorphous solids
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Physics of phase separation in cell biophysics: From non-equilibrium droplets to reaction-diffusion systems
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Tissue Mechanics
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EPJ N Topical Issue: Fuel Cycle Simulation
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EPJ N Topical Issue: Liquid-gas and liquid-vapour flows: theory, simulation and experiments
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: Breakthrough optics- and complex systems-based technologies of modulation of drainage and clearing functions of the brain
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EPJ Quantum Technology: Special Issue on Quantum Industry
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EPJ Quantum Technology: Special Issue on Quantum Metrology & Quantum Enhanced Measurement
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Chaotic variable-order fractional neural networks
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Complex Bio Rhythms
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Current Trends in Computational and Experimental Techniques in Nonlinear Dynamics
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Frontiers of Fractals for Complex Systems: Recent Advances and Future Challenges
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Intense laser-matter interaction in atoms, finite and condensed systems
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Symmetry, Dynamics and Strings: A Centennial Issue in Honor of Yoichiro Nambu
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EPJ ST Special Issue: The Accelerating Universe – Evidence and Theories
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Tipping in Complex Systems: Theory, Methods & Applications
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Transport Phenomena and Phase Transitions in Soft and Disordered Systems
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EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation: SI units and experimental techniques
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EPJ Techniques and Instumentation: Diagnostics for electric propulsion systems