Ghosts in the machine
In July 1956, in a brief paper published in Science, a small team based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US presented results from an experiment at a new, powerful fission reactor a...
Japan eyes up its future
Japan has been a leader in the global neutrino community since the 1980s, breaking ground (both literally and figuratively) with multiple generations of massive underground experiments. These e...
A portal to new physics
The 1998 discovery that neutrinos can oscillate between different flavours, by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in Japan and subsequently by the SNO experiment in Canada, marked a turning point ...
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Tunnel VisionsBy M Riordan, L Hoddeson and A W KolbUniversity of Chicago PressAlso available at the CERN bookshop The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a huge accelerator to be built in Texas in t...
Short but intense…
After a short, but intense, “intermezzo” as editor of the CERN Courier, I’m stepping down as I head off to new challenges. I would like to thank the CERN Courier Advisory Board and the m...
Data preservation is a journey
As an organisation with more than 60 years of history, CERN has created large volumes of “data” of many different types. This involves not only scientific data – by far the large...
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Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks: From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN. With a Tribute to Rolf HagedornBy Johann Rafelski (ed.)SpringerAlso available at the CERN...
The Tevatron legacy: a luminosity story
Résumé Une histoire de luminosité Les résultats du programme du Tevatron ont largement dépassé les objectifs de physique prévus initialement, en raison notamment de ...
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Images of Time: Mind, Science, RealityBy George JaroszkiewiczOxford University Press For ages, sundials have been used to measure time, with typical accuracies in the order of a few minutes. After Gal...
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Open access ebooks Open access (OA) publishing is proving to be a very successful publishing model in the scholarly scientific field: today, more than 10,000 journals are accessible in OA, according t...
