Read article 'Hard probes conference finds success in Portugal'
In November, more than 100 enthusiasts headed to a fishing village near Lisbon for the first international conference on hard probes of heavy-ion collisions, Hard Probes 2004.
Read article 'Belle discovers yet more new particles'
The vast amounts of accumulated data have helped another important aspect of Belle's physics programme: the discovery of new particle states in the charm sector.
Read article 'News from the frontline in the hunt for exotic nuclei'
In Russia last summer 220 scientists attended an international symposium reviewing present and future research into exotic nuclei.
Read article 'ICHEP lays on a Chinese banquet of physics'
The ICHEP '04 conference provided a major opportunity to review a wide range of recent progress in particle physics.
Read article 'Carbon sheds light on star creation'
New measurements of unstable nuclei caught in the act of decay have gone a long way towards resolving long-standing questions about the triple-alpha process that creates carbon nuclei.
Read article 'High-precision masses test the Standard Model at ISOLTRAP'
The atomic mass of a nucleus is important in a wide range of physics, as it conveys information on the nuclear binding energy. It is a unique property of each of the more than 3000 known nuclides. Now...
Read article 'Jefferson Lab’s journey into the nucleus'
Experiments at the boundary of nuclear physics and particle physics are providing a clearer view of the nucleus in terms of the basic quarks and gluons, as Douglas Higinbotham describes.
Read article 'Twenty-five years of gluons'
This summer DESY celebrated the discovery in 1979 of the first direct evidence for gluons in experiments at the electron-positron collider, PETRA. Talks at a special symposium provided some personal v...
Read article 'Physicists meet in Beijing at ICHEP’04…'
ICHEP'04, the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, was successfully held in Beijing from 16-22 August, hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and the Chinese Academy of...
Read article 'The new transversity council of Trento'
A recent workshop on new developments in nucleon spin structure, held at the ECT* in Trento, revived memories of the famous Council of Trento of 1530.
