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.
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.
