Read article 'Space-time symmetry is put to the test'
Symmetries underpin much of modern physics and, as a consequence, are sensitive probes for new phenomena. Neil Russell reports from a recent meeting held at Indiana University, where physicists discus...
Read article 'Rare kaon decay tests Standard Model'
An experiment at Long Island's Brookhaven laboratory has just reported a long-awaited result: the observation of only the second decay of a positive kaon into a positive pion accompanied by a neutrino...
Read article 'Team reports neutrinoless double beta decay'
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, have reported evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay.
Read article 'ISOLDE tests the Standard Model'
Tests of the Standard Model of particle physics are largely the domain of high-energy particle accelerators.
Read article 'Fermilab launches Run II of Tevatron'
After detecting hints of the long-awaited Higgs particle, CERN's LEP electron-positron collider closed at the end of 2000 and is now being dismantled. The search for the Higgs - the missing link in ...
Read article 'Microeffect in muon magnetism'
A new precision measurement of the muon's magnetism during an experiment at Brookhaven has shown a tiny unexplained discrepancy.
Read article 'Discovering new dimensions at LHC'
In an entirely new energy range and with its special experimental conditions, the LHC could also discover other new physics effects.
Read article '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 '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 '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.
