
Secrets of discovery
Interview with Kip Thorne, who predicted LIGO’s observation of gravitational waves.
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Interview with Kip Thorne, who predicted LIGO’s observation of gravitational waves.
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...