Read article 'Understanding flavour is the key to new physics'
Résumé Comprendre la saveur pour accéder à la nouvelle physique La physique portant sur les divers types (ou saveurs) de quarks a un fort impact sur la physique des particules et e...
Read article 'LHCb prepares for a RICH harvest of rare beauty'
RICH detectors get ready for heavy-flavour physics at the LHC.
Read article 'B-factories yield first evidence for elusive D⁰–D̅⁰ mixing'
It is more than 50 years since researchers first observed particle–antiparticle mixing, with the discovery of a second, longer-lived neutral kaon state. This discovery pre-dated the quark model, but...
Read article 'Recent ISOLDE results revisit parity violation'
Results from a recent measurement at CERN's ISOLDE facility are a tribute to the announcement 50 years ago of the first observation of the non-conservation of parity.
Read article 'Physicists gather for an extravaganza of beauty'
Lively discussions and precise measurements dominated Beauty 2006, the latest international conference on B-physics. Neville Harnew and Guy Wilkinson report.
Read article 'OPERA makes its debut under the Gran Sasso'
After three years of construction, the OPERA experiment has detected the first neutrinos from CNGS, and an automated production and assembly line is in full swing to complete the detector so that its ...
Read article 'Workshop focuses on top-quark physics'
More than 80 physicists from all over the world met in January in the ancient Portuguese town of Coimbra to take part in the International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, TOP2006.
Read article 'Muon neutrinos vanish on way to Minnesota'
This is the conclusion from the first results of the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS), presented at a seminar at Fermilab on 30 March, which showed that MINOS has observed the disappe...
Read article 'Belle experiment finds evidence for rare missing-energy decay'
The results were announced at the Flavor Physics and CP Violation conference in Vancouver, and have been submitted to Physical Review Letters.
Read article 'HAPPEx shows the proton is not so strange'
Two more rounds of data taken by the Hall A Proton Parity Experiment (HAPPEx) at the US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab have provided the most precise constraint yet on nucleon strangeness.
