CERN Courier – September 2005
News
Fermilab's Recycler beams take electron cooling to new heights
KamLAND detects geoneutrinos
ATLAS calorimeter records cosmic-ray events underground
BaBar collaboration detects new resonance
Belle observes b → d
INFN and industry to build new cyclotron for hadron therapy
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Sciencewatch
Peacock feathers prove photonic crystals cast brown light in nature
Gravity works at a distance of 100 nm
The shape of acidity
Ultrasound causes change in viscosity
Astrowatch
Astronomers discover possible 10th planet
Features
George Placzek - an unsung hero of physics
Jan Fischer describes the life and work of the Czech physicist, born in 1905, who made important contributions to nuclear physics in the 1930s-1940s.
Conference brings Einstein to Tennessee
This year's major accelerator conference covered impressive progress in the field, and featured events celebrating the World Year of Physics. Norbert Holtkamp reports.
Slow antiprotons galore
A workshop in Japan in the spring looked at how to make and use beams of ultra-slow antiprotons over a wide range of physics.
Antiproton physics takes another big LEAP forward
The latest in the Low Energy Antiproton Physics series of conferences in Bonn showed that this field of research is increasingly vibrant and exciting, as Walter Oelert describes.
Berkeley plans CIRCE to fill the terahertz gap
A machine has been proposed at Berkeley that would provide radiation at terahertz frequencies, a valuable source for research.
Computing News and Features
CrossGrid project concludes
PHENIX experiment uses Grid to transfer 270 TB of data to Japan
W3C backs XML Key Management System
GÉANT2 set to boost research in Europe
US launches weekly online newsletter
New service 'deep-mines' databases
QCDOC computers study quarks
Scientific Linux 4.0 offers new features
High-performance APE computers are introduced to US
Latest release of Grid middleware runs on Mac OS X
WAH compression speeds up searches
US inaugurates the Open Science Grid
Calendar of events
Running the Grid on lite
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Regulars
Faces and places
Viewpoint: Collaboration without borders
Barry Barish asks how the particle-physics community can continue to foster its hallmark of fruitful international collaboration.