Read article 'ICHEP lays on a Chinese banquet of physics'
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 'ICHEP lays on a Chinese banquet of physics'
Read article 'Carbon sheds light on star creation'
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'
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...
Read article 'Jefferson Lab’s journey into the nucleus'
Jefferson Lab’s journey into the nucleus
Experiments at the boundary of nuclear physics and particle physics are providing a clearer view of the nucleus in terms of the basic quarks and gluons, as Douglas Higinbotham describes.
Read article 'Twenty-five years of gluons'
Twenty-five years of gluons
This summer DESY celebrated the discovery in 1979 of the first direct evidence for gluons in experiments at the electron-positron collider, PETRA. Talks at a special symposium provided some personal v...
Read article 'Physicists meet in Beijing at ICHEP’04…'
Physicists meet in Beijing at ICHEP’04…
ICHEP'04, the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, was successfully held in Beijing from 16-22 August, hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and the Chinese Academy of...
Read article 'The new transversity council of Trento'
The new transversity council of Trento
A recent workshop on new developments in nucleon spin structure, held at the ECT* in Trento, revived memories of the famous Council of Trento of 1530.
Read article 'Quark Model and High Energy Collisions'
Quark Model and High Energy Collisions
QCD-motivated, it gives a detailed description of hadron structure and soft interactions in the additive quark model, and is aimed at graduate students and researchers in particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'Quark-Gluon Plasma 3'
Quark-Gluon Plasma 3
This is the third volume in a series on the subject, and the first such monograph to focus on the implications of the experimental results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven.
Read article 'Digging deep in the High Tatras mountains'
Digging deep in the High Tatras mountains
The latest in the DIS series of workshops looked at probing the proton to reveal more about quantum chromodynamics.
