Read article 'Particles in Portugal: new high-energy physics results'
Europe's premier particle-physics conference took place in 2005 on the banks of the River Tagus, near Lisbon. Per Osland and Jorma Tuominiemi report.
Read article 'Experiments finally unveil a precise portrait of the Z'
After six years of preparation, a 300 page article combining thousands of measurements from five different experiments presents a precision study of the properties of the Z boson.
Read article 'Uppsala 2005: leptons, photons and a lot more'
The biennial Lepton-Photon conference was held in Uppsala on 30 June - 5 July. The talks erected the impressive edifice known as the Standard Model and showed that experimental ingenuity has not yet s...
Read article 'Symposium previews the future of hadron colliders'
The HCP2005 Symposium, held in the Swiss Alps, discussed the latest results from the Tevatron and the prospect that the LHC will open new scientific frontiers.
Read article '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 '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 'Neutral Atom Trap at TRIUMF places best limits on scalar bosons'
"Table-top" experiments can still probe physics complementary to particle searches at high-energy accelerators. A beta-neutrino correlation experiment using TRIUMF's Neutral Atom Trap (TRINAT) has now...
Read article 'TWIST tests the Standard Model'
Normal muon decay is an ideal process to investigate the electroweak interaction in the Standard Model.
Read article 'Physicists meet in Beijing at ICHEP’04…'
ICHEP'04, the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, was successfully held in Beijing from 16-22 August, hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and the Chinese Academy of...
Read article 'The discovery of the weak neutral currents'
Dieter Haidt, from the Gargamelle collaboration, describes how the team's major triumph came about and was eventually accepted.
