Read article 'FINUDA’s first results open up new window on exotic nuclei'
The first results from the FINUDA experiment at INFN's Frascati National Laboratory show that the detector is performing well and is in good shape for its future studies of hypernuclear physics.
Read article 'Superheavies extend periodic table to 115'
A team from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the US, has published results on the synthesis of two new superhe...
Read article 'Quark Matter brings heavy ions to Oakland'
The Quark Matter 2004 conference, held in Oakland, California, in January, provided participants with evidence for the elusive quark-gluon plasma. Spencer Klein and Joakim Nystrand describe the highli...
Read article 'The challenge of the pentaquarks'
Volker Burkert reports on Pentaquark 2003, the first topical workshop on exotic baryons, which was held at Jefferson Lab in November.
Read article 'ISOLTRAP pins down masses of exotic nuclei'
Researchers using the Penning trap mass spectrometer, ISOLTRAP, at the ISOLDE facility at CERN have published new high-precision measurements of the mass of short-lived radionuclides of argon and copp...
Read article 'The atomic nucleus as a laboratory'
The 28th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics, which took place from 31 August to 7 September 2003 in Krzyze, Poland, looked at the atomic nucleus as a laboratory for fundamental processes.
Read article 'New five-quark states found at CERN'
Only a few months after the first burst of excitement over the appearance at several laboratories of what seems to be a new five-quark particle, evidence has been found for a different five-quark stat...
Read article 'GSI Darmstadt gains credit for new element'
The Joint Working Party (JWP) on the priority of claims to the discovery of new elements has officially credited the research collaboration led by Sigurd Hofmann at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenfo...
Read article 'Deuterons display surprising spin gymnastics'
Just before the Cooler Ring at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) passed into history, it produced another impressive result using the ring's unique accelerator physics capabilities.
Read article 'Physics from heaven and Earth'
The International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics of the European Physical Society (HEP-EPS) provided a superb synergy between physics, history and music, as Felicitas Pauss reports.
