Read article 'Polarized colliders may prove to be the key in mapping out proton spin structure'
Arcane complication or vital property? Opinions about particle spin differ, but those who feel strongly about it say that more spin has to come into collision.
Read article 'Radioactive beam research gets new facility'
CERN's new nuclear physics facility, REX-ISOLDE, was commissioned at the end of October, opening up new horizons for the laboratory's nuclear physics community.
Read article 'BES accumulates 51 million J/psi events'
While plans to update the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and the Beijing Spectro-meter (BESII) experiment go ahead, the BES experiment has completed its second highly successful run at t...
Read article 'Why do high-energy collisions contrive to produce so few particles most of the time?'
The collisions produced by the new generation of high-energy hadron machines - Fermilab's revamped Tevatron for protons on antiprotons, Brookhaven's RHIC for heavy ions and CERN's LHC for protons and...
Read article 'Experiment boosts the idea of a nuclear halo'
The availability of relatively copious sources of antiprotons has stimulated the study of "exotic" atoms, in which a negatively charged antiproton replaces an orbital atomic electron. When they app...
Read article 'HERMES searches for the nucleon’s missing spin'
While the proton and the neutron are made up of quarks and gluons, the spin of the proton or the neutron is difficult to reconcile with the spins of quark and gluon components. For more than a deca...
Read article 'Heavy Quark Physics'
Duccio Abbaneo, CERN.
Read article 'At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD – Boris Ioffe Festschrift'
Gordon Fraser reviews in 2001 At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD - Boris Ioffe Festschrift.
Read article 'Team produces stranger than strange nuclei'
An experiment at Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron has "mass-produced" doubly strange hypernuclei - exotic nuclei in which two neutrons have been replaced by L hyperons.
Read article 'Second postcard from the island of stability'
Experiments on synthetic nuclei continue to explore a world that is very remote from our own experience. Recent studies at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, near Moscow, report anot...
