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ICTP at 40: the centre’s legacy for the future

The 40 year history of the ICTP, marked by international co-operation and understanding, provides valuable and enduring lessons that are as relevant today as they were at the centre's inception.

Twenty-five years of gluons

This summer DESY celebrated the discovery in 1979 of the first direct evidence for gluons in experiments at the electron-positron collider, PETRA. Talks at a special symposium provided some personal v...

Sergei Vavilov: luminary of Russian physics

Sergei Vavilov, whose research led to the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, contributed greatly to establishing a strong base for physics in the USSR, especially during the difficult years of the 1930...

The discovery of the weak neutral currents

Dieter Haidt, from the Gargamelle collaboration, describes how the team's major triumph came about and was eventually accepted.

Postcards from CERN: 50 years through a lens

Over the years CERN’s photographers have provided an important record of the laboratory’s development. This selection provides a glimpse of CERN’s history through their eyes.

Origins: the early days of CERN

François de Rose recalls the first discussions that ultimately led to the birth of CERN.

Quark Model and High Energy Collisions

QCD-motivated, it gives a detailed description of hadron structure and soft interactions in the additive quark model, and is aimed at graduate students and researchers in particle and nuclear physics.

Path Integrals and Quantum Anomalies

A self-contained introduction to the path-integral method in field theory and its applications to quantum anomalies, this book assumes no previous knowledge beyond advanced undergraduate quantum mecha...

Quark-Gluon Plasma 3

This is the third volume in a series on the subject, and the first such monograph to focus on the implications of the experimental results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven.