Read article 'Joining up the dots with the strong force'
A new variation on an old technique is yielding the most precise results so far in lattice calculations of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, as Christine Davies explains.
Read article 'Has HERA found a charmed pentaquark?'
The H1 experiment studying electron-proton collisions at DESY's HERA accelerator may have discovered a new five-quark particle.
Read article 'Workshop looks to the future of QCD'
While quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is considered to be the theory of strong interactions, it is very difficult to use it to make predictions of processes over distances of the order of the size of had...
Read article 'ISOLDE goes on the trail of superlatives'
The superlarge nuclei studied at CERN's ISOLDE facility can now vie for attention with the superdeformed and the superheavy, as David Lunney explains.
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.
