Strong interactions Archives – Page 41 of 52

Pomerons return to Blois

Pomeron physics and QCD met once again at the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering: Towards High Energy Frontiers.

Belle observes b → d

The Belle collaboration, with a detector operating at the KEKB facility, has recently reported that they have observed the rare b → d transitions.

DEAR pins down kaonic hydrogen

The DEAR (DAFNE Exotic Atoms Research) experiment at the DAFNE φ factory at Frascati has performed the most accurate determination of the effect of the strong interaction on the binding energy of kao...

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.

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.

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 (...

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.

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.

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.