Features
Pursuit of deconfinement returns to the SPS
On the trail from the SPS to RHIC to the LHC – and back to the SPS.
SuperKEKB goes in hunt of flavour at the terascale
KEK’s B-factory upgrade promises a 40-fold increase in luminosity.
The SuperB approach to high luminosity
Innovation at the next-generation B factory to be built in Italy.
Accelerating sustainability in large-scale facilities
Report on a workshop where experts shared ideas for the future.
Regulars
Faces and Places
EPS, France, Japan and the US honour physicists • Ent becomes associate director at Jefferson Lab • CERN celebrates the ‘Rutherford centenary’ • Merger creates new institute for nuclear research • First artist in residence at CERN starts in March • Greenberg reaches 80 as Matveev passes 70 •New school series in Asia-Pacific region • School-time in Heidelberg • The building blocks of physics at CERN • Visits
Bookshelf
The Infinity Puzzle: How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics and the world’s most expensive experiment • Risk – A very short Introduction • Books received
Viewpoint: Towards a more confident future
Colin Carlile argues the case for collaboration and science as drivers of confidence – something that is surely needed in 2012.
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Four approaches enable gap-free acquisition of continuous and triggered signals
July 7, 2011
Numerous test scenarios require gap-free or continuous acquisition of digitized data for minutes, hours or days.
Modelling and analysis of acoustic emissions and structural vibration in a wind turbine
Apr 12, 2011
The onshore wind turbine industry must overcome many technical, commercial, and environmental difficulties.
Multiphysics simulation software
Jan 20, 2011
The fusion of faster hardware and smarter algorithms opens up new opportunities for multiphysics modelling and simulation of the real world.
Agilent Technologies New Application Note Describes How to Reveal Greater Detail in Waveform Measurements
Dec 2, 2010
A white paper from Agilent Technologies.