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.
Read article 'CDF measures matter-antimatter B0s transition'
The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has announced the precision measurement of the matter-antimatter transitions for the B0s meson, which consists of a bottom quark bound to a strange anti-quark.
Read article 'BaBar Collaboration submits its 200th paper'
A paper entitled “Measurement of Bbar0 → D(*)0Kbar(*)0 Branching Fractions” became the focus of celebrations in early April, as it became the 200th to be submitted for publ...
Read article 'CLEO cleans up below the charm threshold'
The charmonium spectrum provides fertile ground for investigating the force that binds quarks together, and the CLEO detector is revealing some previously missing states, as David Cassel and Jonathan ...
Read article 'D0 provides precise results on B0s oscillations'
The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has published the first direct two-sided bound on the oscillation frequency of the B0s, the meson comprising a strange quark (s) and a bottom antiquark (Bbar).
