Read article 'Solving the mystery of the missing neutrinos'
Solving the mystery of the missing neutrinos
In the May 2007 issue, Nick Jelley and Alan Poon looked back at the achievements of the SNO experiment.
Read article 'Solving the mystery of the missing neutrinos'
Read article 'PET and CT: a perfect fit'
PET and CT: a perfect fit
David Townsend is a professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee (TN). The winner of the 2004 Clinical Scientist of the Year Award from the A...
Read article 'Needles in high-speed haystacks'
Needles in high-speed haystacks
The new generation of big proton–proton colliders now being planned in Europe and the US aims to open up the collision physics of the constituent quarks and gluons hidden deep inside the proton. Loc...
Read article 'Detector trends by Georges Charpak'
Detector trends by Georges Charpak
Every year sees the emergence of new breeds of detectors and the improvement of existing ones, but the innovations which go on to make a significant impact on physics research are limited. The large i...
Read article 'ALEPH'
ALEPH
Our previous issue carried the first of a series of articles (DELPHI, page 27) on the four major experiments for CERN’s 9 kilometre diameter LEP electron–positron ring, now under construction an...
Read article 'Gargamelle: CERN’s new heavy liquid bubble chamber'
Gargamelle: CERN’s new heavy liquid bubble chamber
The famous Gargamelle bubble chamber, featured in the May 1968 issue, went on to gather the first direct evidence of the weak neutral current.
Read article 'Nuclear emulsions'
Nuclear emulsions
In the May 1966 issue, A J Herz and W O Lock described the development of nuclear-emulsion detectors, highlighting a CERN experiment that determined the magnetic moment of the Λ0 baryon.
