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 'LHC workshop studies new physics'
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 ...
Read article 'Beijing tests complete precision measurement'
Beijing tests complete precision measurement
The BES II spectrometer at the Beijing electronpositron collider (BEPC) has completed a measurement of hadron production rates over the 25 GeV energy range which is valuable input for Standard Mod...
Read article 'Physicists study photon structure'
Physicists study photon structure
Almost a century after Einstein introduced the idea of a quantum of light, the photon continues to be a rich field of physics.
Read article 'Looking for Higgs and supersymmetry'
Looking for Higgs and supersymmetry
Some of the most compelling questions in particle physics today are to do with the Higgs boson and supersymmetry (SUSY).
Read article 'Twenty-five years of neutral currents'
Twenty-five years of neutral currents
In the summer of 1973, an experiment at the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN discovered a new physics effect. Gordon Fraser looks back at how confirmation of the existence of neutral currents ushere...
Read article 'QED: surviving the bad press'
QED: surviving the bad press
"How in the world can you make any money out of a theory like this?" asked Steven Weinberg. But quantum electrodynamics has proven a robust theory, and researchers are still pushing at its frontiers ...
