Read article 'Secrets of discovery'
Secrets of discovery
Interview with Kip Thorne, who predicted LIGO’s observation of gravitational waves.
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Read article 'Bookshelf'
Bookshelf
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Fields By Luciano Maiani and Omar Benhar CRC Press Quantum field theory (QFT) is the mathematical framework that forms the basis...
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Bookshelf
Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy By Frank Close Oneworld Also available at the CERN bookshop In this book, Frank Close tells the story of the enigmatic life of...
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Bookshelf
Experimental Studies of Neutrino Oscillations By Takaaki Kajita World Scientific This book on neutrino oscillations is mainly of historic interest. It consists of seven chapters that reproduce review ...
Read article 'Ghosts in the machine'
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...
Read article 'Japan eyes up its future'
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...
Read article 'A portal to new physics'
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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Bookshelf
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...
Read article 'Short but intense…'
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...
Read article 'Data preservation is a journey'
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...
