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.
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.
