Read article 'Lattice QCD and CLEO-c tackle the CP challenge'
New results presented at Lepton-Photon 2005 provide important tests of the predictive powers of lattice calculations of parameters vital in the study of CP violation.
Read article 'Double dose of magic proves key to element production'
Researchers at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have reported the first measurement of the half-life of nickel-78.
Read article 'Mystery deepens as pentaquarks refuse to make an appearance'
Preliminary data on the hot topic of the search for pentaquarks were presented at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society by the Jefferson Laboratory's CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (...
Read article 'HERA and LHC workshops help prepare for the future'
A series of workshops has given scientists the opportunity to discover how the studies currently being carried out at HERA will influence future physics at the LHC.
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...
