Read article 'Neutral currents'
Leon Lederman, former director of Fermilab, once described the development of particle physics as frequently a story of false trails, crossed wires, sloppy techniques, misconceptions and misunderstand...
Read article 'The ISR in the time of Jentschke'
The beginning of Willibald Jentschke's mandate at CERN coincided with the start-up of the world's first hadron collider, the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR).
Read article 'A heartfelt tribute'
A tribute to Willibald Jentschke who passed away in March 2022.
Read article 'CERN and Saclay: 40 years of co-operation'
The Saclay research centre opened its doors in 1952, just two years before CERN was founded. For much of the time since then, the two laboratories have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration, spanning the d...
Read article 'When CERN saw the end of the alphabet'
The W and Z particles were first observed at CERN 20 years ago by the UA1 and UA2 experiments. Daniel Denegri, who worked with UA1, recollects the spirit of discovery at the time.
Read article 'Theory of Optical Processes in Semiconductors'
Now out in paperback this book, aimed at graduate students in physics and engineering, and other beginners in the field, provides a simple quantum mechanical theory of important optical processes in s...
Read article 'Plasma Waves: Second Edition'
This extended and revised edition encompasses waves in cold, warm and hot plasmas and relativistic plasmas.
Read article 'Dall’Atomo al Cosmo (From Atoms to the Cosmos)'
Antonella del Rosso reviews in 2003 Dall'Atomo al Cosmo (From Atoms to the Cosmos).
Read article 'Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces'
A detailed historical account of how leading scientists of the past 300 years have tried to understand why matter sticks together, this book will interest physicists and physical chemists, as well as ...
Read article 'Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics and Problems & Solution in Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics'
The new study guide, in its first edition, has grown out of popular demand. The problems, most of which have been tested on the author's students, vary in difficulty from very simple to research level...
