Read article '40 years of CERN’s Proton Synchrotron'
CERN's Proton Synchrotron achieved its first high-energy beams 40 years ago. The pioneers at CERN had dared to follow a new, untested route in a bid to become the world's highest energy machine. Now, ...
Read article 'Silver celebration for Swiss pions'
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first particle beams at the former Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, now better known as the Paul Scherrer Institute.
Read article 'CPT and Lorentz Symmetry'
These are the proceedings of a meeting held at Bloomington, Indiana, November 1998, which look at the underlying spacetime symmetries of particle physics.
Read article 'Spectral Asymptotics in the Semi-Classical Limit'
This volume is part of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note series.
Read article 'The New World of Mr Tompkins'
Gordon Fraser reviews in 1999 The New World of Mr Tompkins.
Read article 'High Field Superconducting Magnets'
Fred Asner traces the discovery and understanding of superconductivity.
Read article 'Effective Medium Theory – Principles and Applications'
While not at the cutting edge of fundamental physics, effective medium theory is a fruitful way of describing and handling microstructure at the mesoscopic scale. The introduction is by Marshall Stone...
Read article 'Cyclotrons and their Applications 1998 – Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications, Caen, France, 14-19 June 1998'
Cyclotrons 1998 was the fifteenth in a series of international conferences initiated in 1959. Cyclotrons are used in basic and applied research, radiotherapy and nuclear medicine. Included is a comple...
Read article 'FORTRAN 90/95 explained'
Despite the continual appearance of new programming languages Fortran, now well into middle age, soldiers on. This new edition summarizes the latest standards.
Read article 'CP Violation'
A complete theoretical and phenomenological study of CP violation and the CKM matrix, including the implications for heavy quarks.
