CERN Courier: April 2006
News
Sciencewatch
Features
Prague meeting focuses on colliders and cosmic rays
The C2CR meeting in Prague targeted the interface between cosmic-ray physics and the current and future results from accelerators and colliders.
HERMES looks for final pieces in nucleon-spin puzzle
Having successfully fulfilled its mission to track down the quark contribution to the nucleon's spin, HERMES now aims at providing an even more complete picture of nucleon spin.
The HERMES gas target: 10 years on
Erhard Steffens describes the various phases in a successful decade of operation of the HERMES gas target, which may live on with future use for antiproton polarization.
Nucleon form factors stride into the future
At a three-day meeting at Frascati, physicists from around the world met to discuss the implications of striking new results on the nucleon space-like and time-like form factors.
Computing News and Features
Networking tackles the LHC challenge
David Foster describes how the challenging requirements of the LHC Computing Grid have changed the way that networking is organized for high-energy physics.
Counting on uncertainty
Quantum computing lies at the boundary between physics and computer science, and is regularly yielding headline news.
Regulars
2006: l'impulsion relancée
Martial Ducloy et Martin C E Huber encouragent la communauté scientifique à tirer parti de l'élan donné par l'Année mondiale de la physique en 2005.