Read article 'Quark Matter goes to Washington'
Quark Matter goes to Washington
QM2012 focuses on the physics of the quark–gluon plasma.
Read article 'Quark Matter goes to Washington'
Read article 'Deep-inelastic scattering enters the LHC era'
Deep-inelastic scattering enters the LHC era
News from the DIS 2012 workshop held earlier this year in Bonn.
Read article 'CEBAF: a fruitful past and a promising future'
CEBAF: a fruitful past and a promising future
Achievements and prospects at Jefferson Lab’s electron facility.
Read article 'The atomic nucleus: fissile liquid or molecule of life?'
The atomic nucleus: fissile liquid or molecule of life?
The atomic nucleus is generally described as a drop of quantum liquid. In particular, such liquid-like behaviour explains nuclear fission and applies especially to heavy nuclei such as uranium.
Read article '3D cooling for uranium collisions at RHIC'
3D cooling for uranium collisions at RHIC
Techniques to shrink the beams of the heaviest ions ever used in a collider.
Read article 'The history of QCD'
The history of QCD
Harald Fritzsch, one of the pioneers of quantum chromodynamics, recalls some of the background to the development of the theory 40 years ago.
Read article 'Heavy-ion jets go with the flow'
Heavy-ion jets go with the flow
The studies of central heavy-ion collisions at the LHC by the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments show that partons traversing the produced hot and dense medium lose a significant fraction of their energ...
Read article 'CMS studies the quark–gluon plasma'
CMS studies the quark–gluon plasma
Results from a multifaceted heavy-ion programme.
Read article 'Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies'
Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies
How the experiment employs an arsenal of techniques.
Read article 'Seeing bosons in heavy-ion collisions'
Seeing bosons in heavy-ion collisions
Studies of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC are challenging and refining ideas on how to probe QCD – the theory of the strong interaction – at high temperature and density.
