Read article 'Looking at physics in a rarefied atmosphere'
Last year the annual DESY Theory Workshop focused on rare physics - the physics that's hardest to do and sometimes difficult to understand. Andrzej Buras reports.
Read article 'Charmed particles in Beijing'
The world's largest data sample of J/psi particles produced directly from electron-positron annihilation has been accumulated with the BESII spectrometer at the BEPC collider in Beijing.
Read article 'CP asymmetry moves to new setting'
The year 2000 sees the debut of a new kind of precision physics. It formally began with the opening plenary talks at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, the biennial particle physic...
Read article 'DONUT comes to neutrino town'
A neutrino experiment at Fermilab has seen the first direct evidence for the tau neutrino, the most elusive of the 12 particles that make up the Standard Model picture of the fundamental structure o...
Read article 'Synthetic neutrinos appear to disappear'
Announced at the recent Neutrino 2000 meeting in Sudbury, Canada, were the first results from the K2K long-distance neutrino beam experiment in Japan. For the first time, synthetic neutrinos made in...
Read article 'New precision result on CP violation'
The latest precision measurement of CP violation, matter-antimatter asymmetry, by the big NA48 experiment at CERN are explored in this article from 2000.
Read article 'CP Violation'
This carefully written book would make a useful introduction and guide to the difficult theory of this phenomenon.
Read article 'Lessons learnt from the heavy tau lepton'
A quarter of a century ago, Martin Perl discovered a new particle: the tau lepton. This weakly interacting particle is so heavy that it can decay into strongly interacting particles and provide very ...
Read article 'HAPPEX probes ‘sea’ of nucleon strangeness'
The proton is not strange. This is the conclusion drawn from the initial results of an experiment at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia, which cast new light on the deep interior of nucl...
Read article 'New meson physics pushes on in 2000'
On 9-10 December a symposium at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, will mark the 20th anniversary of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, the CLEO particle detector and the Cornell High-Energy Synchr...
