Read article 'Physics as you lake it'
Physics as you lake it
At the end of August nearly 100 physicists met in Ambleside in England's beautiful Lake District for the Photon 2000 conference organized by Lancaster University.
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Read article 'LEP gets a stay of Higgs execution'
LEP gets a stay of Higgs execution
With possible signs of the elusive Higgs particle on the horizon, on 14 September CERN decided to
extend the life of its flagship LEP electron-positron collider until 2 November 2000.
Read article 'LEP hints at Higgs effect'
LEP hints at Higgs effect
After commencing 2000 operations in fine style, CERN's flagship machine, the LEP electron-positron collider, has been regularly delivering experiments with beams of 103 GeV or more.
Read article 'The Standard Model in the Making – Precision Study of the Electroweak Interactions'
The Standard Model in the Making – Precision Study of the Electroweak Interactions
Guido Altarelli reviews in 2000 The Standard Model in the Making - Precision Study of the Electroweak Interactions.
Read article 'Lessons learnt from the heavy tau lepton'
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 'LHC workshop studies new physics'
LHC workshop studies new physics
With construction work for CERN's LHC and its big detectors under way a workshop, Standard Model Physics at the LHC, was held at CERN.
Read article 'Nobel Prize for Physics 1999'
Nobel Prize for Physics 1999
The last Nobel Prize for Physics this century goes to Gerardus 't Hooft of Utrecht and Martinus Veltman of Bilthoven in the Netherlands, "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interacti...
Read article 'LEP pursues Higgs boson and greater W precision'
LEP pursues Higgs boson and greater W precision
While we wait for a definitive sighting of the enigmatic Higgs particle, there is no lack of careful precision work for the experiments at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider. Bob Clare of MIT look...
Read article 'From Z to ZZ – a decade of electroweak precision'
From Z to ZZ – a decade of electroweak precision
After having carefully amassed some 18 million Z particles one by one over 10 years, the experiments at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider are now producing Zs in pairs.
Read article 'Lepton-photon symposium at Stanford'
Lepton-photon symposium at Stanford
The major international focus of high-energy physics in odd-numbered years is the International Symposium on LeptonPhoton Interactions at High Energies, which took place this year on 9-14 August at ...
