CERN Courier: March 2005
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HERA hits new heights
Ferdinand Willeke reports on the challenges faced by the HERA crew to get the accelerator back into full swing after a major luminosity upgrade in 2001.
Spin time in Italy
The SPIN 2004 symposium in Trieste provided a showcase for the latest developments in this key area of particle and nuclear physics.
News from the frontline in the hunt for exotic nuclei
In Russia last summer 220 scientists attended an international symposium reviewing present and future research into exotic nuclei.
Protons on the doorstep of the LHC
The first of the two new beam transfer lines to the LHC was successfully commissioned in autumn 2004. At the first attempt a low-intensity proton beam passed down the line to a few metres before the LHC tunnel.
Particles meet cosmology and strings in Boston
PASCOS 2004 is the latest in the symposium series that brings together disciplines from the frontier areas of modern physics.
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Viewpoint: A fundamental base for the future
In 2005, more than ever, we must continue to nurture fundamental research if we are to sustain technology, argue Manjit Dosanjh and Hans Hoffmann.