Read article 'TWIST tests the Standard Model'
TWIST tests the Standard Model
Normal muon decay is an ideal process to investigate the electroweak interaction in the Standard Model.
Read article 'TWIST tests the Standard Model'
Read article 'Physicists meet in Beijing at ICHEP’04…'
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'
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.
Read article 'D0 sharpens its top-quark measurement'
D0 sharpens its top-quark measurement
The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has applied a new technique for measuring the mass of the top quark that yields a more precise result than previously.
Read article 'The W and Z at LEP'
The W and Z at LEP
The Large Electron Positron collider made significant contributions to the process of establishing the Standard Model as the basis for matter and forces, and also built a platform for physics scenario...
Read article 'The W and Z particles: a personal recollection'
The W and Z particles: a personal recollection
Pierre Darriulat, who was spokesperson for the UA2 collaboration between 1978 and 1985, looks back at the events surrounding the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN in 1983.
Read article 'Physics from heaven and Earth'
Physics from heaven and Earth
The International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics of the European Physical Society (HEP-EPS) provided a superb synergy between physics, history and music, as Felicitas Pauss reports.
Read article 'Fundamentals of Electroweak Theory'
Fundamentals of Electroweak Theory
Guido Altarelli reviews in 2003 Fundamentals of Electroweak Theory.
Read article 'Neutral currents and other horror stories'
Neutral currents and other horror stories
I have been asked to speak here not so much because of my personal recollections of Willibald Jentschke, but to speak on physics at CERN during his regime.
Read article 'Neutral currents'
Neutral currents
Leon Lederman, former director of Fermilab, once described the development of particle physics as frequently a story of false trails, crossed wires, sloppy techniques, misconceptions and misunderstand...
