Read article 'COMPASS homes in on the nucleon spin'
In continuing CERN's long tradition in investigating and unravelling the spin structure of the nucleon, the COMPASS experiment is also pioneering new detection techniques.
Read article 'The QCD Vacuum Hadrons and Superdense Matter, 2nd edition'
This book is invaluable for particle and nuclear physicists and comprises extensive lecture notes on non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
Read article 'HERMES looks for final pieces in nucleon-spin puzzle'
Having successfully fulfilled its mission to track down the quark contribution to the nucleon's spin, HERMES now aims at providing an even more complete picture of nucleon spin.
Read article 'The HERMES gas target: 10 years on'
Erhard Steffens describes the various phases in a successful decade of operation of the HERMES gas target, which may live on with future use for antiproton polarization.
Read article 'Nucleon form factors stride into the future'
At a three-day meeting at Frascati, physicists from around the world met to discuss the implications of striking new results on the nucleon space-like and time-like form factors.
Read article 'Hadronic Physics from Lattice QCD'
The aim of this book is to introduce lattice quantum chromodynamics to non-specialists, in particular undergraduates and graduates, theorists and experimentalists, who have a background in particle an...
Read article 'Quarks matter in Budapest'
Quark Matter 2005, the 18th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus- Nucleus Collisions, provided a lively forum for new results in heavy-ion physics.
Read article 'Particles in Portugal: new high-energy physics results'
Europe's premier particle-physics conference took place in 2005 on the banks of the River Tagus, near Lisbon. Per Osland and Jorma Tuominiemi report.
Read article 'Tokyo meeting focuses on nucleon-spin problem'
Quark spin, gluon spin and the orbital angular momenta of quarks and gluons can all contribute to nucleon spin, but which has the main role? Physicists met in Tokyo to discuss.
Read article 'Uppsala 2005: leptons, photons and a lot more'
The biennial Lepton-Photon conference was held in Uppsala on 30 June - 5 July. The talks erected the impressive edifice known as the Standard Model and showed that experimental ingenuity has not yet s...
