Read article 'Deuteron-gold collisions clarify ‘jet quenching’ results'
Deuteron-gold collisions clarify ‘jet quenching’ results
New measurements at RHIC provide further insight into heavy-ion collisions at high energies.
Read article 'Deuteron-gold collisions clarify ‘jet quenching’ results'
Read article 'JLab results put new spin on the vacuum'
JLab results put new spin on the vacuum
New measurements from the US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab (JLab) in Virginia are challenging existing ideas on how quark-antiquark pairs are produced from "nothing" - that is, the vacuum.
Read article 'Researchers observe two-proton radioactivity'
Researchers observe two-proton radioactivity
Teams from France, Germany and Poland have recently observed two-proton radioactive decay from iron-45 nuclei. Bertram Blank explains how this opens up exciting new research avenues in nuclear physics...
Read article 'Quark matter conference highlights RHIC results'
Quark matter conference highlights RHIC results
Following the 2000 announcement by the CERN heavy-ion community of evidence for a new state of unbound quark-gluon matter, heavy-ion physicists have been eagerly awaiting results from Brookhaven's RHI...
Read article 'Climbing out of the nuclear valley'
Climbing out of the nuclear valley
With nuclear physics largely confined to a narrow band of stable isotopes, a new US machine aims to provide a wider nuclear perspective.
Read article 'BES accumulates 51 million J/psi events'
BES accumulates 51 million J/psi events
While plans to update the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and the Beijing Spectro-meter (BESII) experiment go ahead, the BES experiment has completed its second highly successful run at t...
Read article 'Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?'
Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?
With quark-gluon calculations being extremely difficult, physicists have to use their ingenuity to get results. The most popular approach is to use powerful supercomputers to simulate a discrete sp...
Read article 'Opening the door to the quark-gluon plasma'
Opening the door to the quark-gluon plasma
Recent experiments at CERN using high-energy beams of nuclei reported evidence for a quark-gluon plasma. Interpreting such evidence is not straightforward, and this article underlines the physics m...
Read article 'Deciphering the enigma of elastic scattering'
Deciphering the enigma of elastic scattering
Understanding most of what happens in high-energy particle scattering should be easy, but it isn't. A recent international conference underlined a traditional dilemma.
Read article 'Radioactive beams drive physics forward'
Radioactive beams drive physics forward
Radioactive ion beams provide access to a variety of research, from basic nuclear physics to the life sciences. Thomas Nilsson looks at the varied radioactive ion beam research programme of CERN's vet...
