Read article 'Going beyond the Standard Model'
Going beyond the Standard Model
A five-part workshop has been launched at CERN to study the interplay between the physics of particle flavour and the physics achievable at particle colliders.
Read article 'Going beyond the Standard Model'
Read article 'BaBar collaboration detects new resonance'
BaBar collaboration detects new resonance
Charmonium spectroscopy has seen a revival over the past year or so, with various groups reporting heavy charmonium states (see CERN Courier January 2004 p9). The BaBar collaboration has now added to ...
Read article 'Antiproton physics takes another big LEAP forward'
Antiproton physics takes another big LEAP forward
The latest in the Low Energy Antiproton Physics series of conferences in Bonn showed that this field of research is increasingly vibrant and exciting, as Walter Oelert describes.
Read article 'DEAR pins down kaonic hydrogen'
DEAR pins down kaonic hydrogen
The DEAR (DAFNE Exotic Atoms Research) experiment at the DAFNE φ factory at Frascati has performed the most accurate determination of the effect of the strong interaction on the binding energy of kao...
Read article 'Variation in weak force found by E158'
Variation in weak force found by E158
The E158 experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has made a landmark observation: the strength of the weak force acting on two electrons lessens when the electrons are far apart.
Read article 'Lattice QCD and CLEO-c tackle the CP challenge'
Lattice QCD and CLEO-c tackle the CP challenge
New results presented at Lepton-Photon 2005 provide important tests of the predictive powers of lattice calculations of parameters vital in the study of CP violation.
Read article 'Analysis method measures angle γ'
Analysis method measures angle γ
Up to a few years ago, no significant measurement of the angle γ in the unitarity triangle of B-meson physics was expected to come out of the current B-factories.
Read article 'Spin time in Italy'
Spin time in Italy
The SPIN 2004 symposium in Trieste provided a showcase for the latest developments in this key area of particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'A November revolution: the birth of a new particle'
A November revolution: the birth of a new particle
Frank Close goes back 30 years to when he first heard of the remarkable results from Brookhaven and SLAC that heralded the discovery of the fourth quark, charm.
Read article 'Framing Lorentz symmetry'
Framing Lorentz symmetry
Experimentalists and theorists from around the world recently gathered at Indiana University to exchange the latest findings from their experiments in the search for the violation of Lorentz symmetry.
