Read article 'Zurich workshop faces the LHC’s precision challenge'
With Switzerland's reputation for exactitude, Zurich was the ideal place for scientists to discuss high precision for hard processes at LHC in this last year's workshop.
Read article 'String theory meets heavy ions in Shanghai'
The latest experimental results from the heavy-ion programmes at RHIC and CERN's SPS were the focus of attention at QM2006 in Shanghai. For the first time there were discussions about attempts to conn...
Read article 'CDF collaboration finds new baryons that contain b quarks'
Researchers at the Tevatron at Fermilab have found two new heavy particles and two of their excited states.
Read article 'Cracow meeting looks forward to the LHC'
As preparations for the start-up of the LHC continue to gather pace, a meeting in Cracow gave physicists the opportunity to take time to look to the exciting physics in store.
Read article 'Exotic atoms cast light on fundamental questions'
A workshop in Trento explored how experiments on exotic atoms, deeply bound kaonic states and antihydrogen provide a low-energy route to addressing fundamental physics.
Read article 'Trieste focuses on hadrons'
A meeting at the ICTP in Trieste brought together participants from the hadronic-physics and heavy-ion communities.
Read article 'Precision pins down the electron’s magnetism'
A measurement of the electron magnetic moment using the combination of several leading-edge techniques has achieved new levels of accuracy, yielding a more precise value for the fine structure constan...
Read article 'Trap gives precise new value for fine structure constant'
A team at Harvard University has made a new precise measurement of the electron magnetic moment, which in turns allows the fine structure constant to be determined with an uncertainty 10 times smaller...
Read article 'Workshop focuses on top-quark physics'
More than 80 physicists from all over the world met in January in the ancient Portuguese town of Coimbra to take part in the International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, TOP2006.
Read article 'ASACUSA measures antiproton mass with record precision'
The Japanese-European ASACUSA team at CERN has measured the antiproton-to-electron-mass ratio to record-breaking accuracy.
