Read article 'KEK: initial B for BELLE'
On 1 June, after five years of planning and five years of construction, the BELLE detector recorded its first B meson events at the KEKB electronpositron B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan. During this fir...
Read article 'NA48 measures direct CP violation'
With a first result announced from a major experiment at CERN, 1999 looks like being a vintage year for the measurement of CP violation the effect that enables nature to differentiate between matte...
Read article 'B-factory sees first B events'
On the morning of 26 May 1999, physicists recorded the first events in the large BaBar detector at the asymmetric B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Read article 'DAFNE and KLOE’s kaons'
The DAFNE electronpositron collider at Frascati and its KLOE detector are flexing their muscles.
Read article 'Is spacetime symmetric?'
Do particles and their antiparticles behave in the same way? Even tiny differences could be amplified over astronomical distances to produce very large effects.
Read article 'CP violation gets clearer'
New data from the KTeV experiment at Fermilab blow away some of the fog around the mystery of CP violation and underline the effects suggested by earlier results from CERN.
Read article 'Symmetry violation in a new setting'
The CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron protonantiproton collider has produced heroic new evidence for the violation of "CP" symmetry, a hypothetical operation which takes a particle into a mirro...
Read article 'The ratchet of time'
New results remind us how, in the strange world of the neutral kaon, a fast rewind does not necessarily take you back to where you started.
Read article 'Beauty is in the eye of the LHC beholder'
The LHCb experiment has been formally approved for CERN's LHC collider.
Read article 'Particles for export'
With CERN's site straddling the FrancoSwiss frontier near Geneva, exporting particle beams is an everyday occurrence. Now a new proposal foresees CERN particles also being exported to Italy, for u...
