CERN Courier: June 2006
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Sciencewatch
Features
ENLIGHT++ extends cancer therapy research network
The preparatory meeting of the ENLIGHT++ network was held at CERN in March, bringing together Europe's leading players in the emerging field of light-ion therapy.
Nobel inspiration: a passion for precision
Carolyn Lee talks to Theodor Hänsch, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy.
CLEO cleans up below the charm threshold
The charmonium spectrum provides fertile ground for investigating the force that binds quarks together, and the CLEO detector is revealing some previously missing states, as David Cassel and Jonathan Rosner report.
Micro-pattern technology gets set for more challenges
A recent meeting at CERN reviewed the progress in the development of micro-pattern gas detectors for current and future particle-physics experiments.
Computing News and Features
Computing conference in India gets ready for LHC
Sunanda Banerjee reports from the CHEP06 conference held this year in Mumbai, India.
Regulars
How to join the virtual revolution
For cost-effective computing it's hard to beat virtual machines. Stephen Childs and Brian Coghlan from Trinity College Dublin describe the solution offered by Grid-Ireland.