Read article 'Deuterons display surprising spin gymnastics'
Just before the Cooler Ring at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) passed into history, it produced another impressive result using the ring's unique accelerator physics capabilities.
Read article 'Physics from heaven and Earth'
The International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics of the European Physical Society (HEP-EPS) provided a superb synergy between physics, history and music, as Felicitas Pauss reports.
Read article 'Symmetries and structures'
Siegfried Krewald reports the news from the Hadron Physics at COSY workshop.
Read article 'Solving cross-section challenges at the LHC'
A small workshop held recently in Switzerland considered the challenges to be overcome before accurate cross-section measurements can be made at the LHC.
Read article 'Narrow states abound at HADRON 2003'
Aschaffenburg, a medieval town near Frankfurt in Germany, was the attractive setting for the 10th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, held from 31 August to 6 September.
Read article 'New light shed on strange physics'
The latest generation of high-current electron accelerators in the GeV energy range is breathing new life into a variety of investigations based on the photoproduction of kaons, as Terry Mart explains...
Read article 'Four labs find five-quark particle'
Four international collaborations have recently announced strong experimental evidence for a five-quark exotic baryon named the theta-plus, composed of two up quarks, two down quarks and a strange ant...
Read article 'Bochum breaks deuteron polarization records'
During the past 10 years, polarized solid targets have been successfully used at CERN and SLAC to investigate the spin structure of the nucleon.
Read article 'BES collaboration observes new narrow state'
The BES collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) has observed a clear signal for a narrow enhancement in the ppbar mass distribution near the 2mp threshold in the process J/Ψ→...
Read article 'Has the deconfinement phase transition been seen?'
New results from the NA49 experiment at CERN suggest that the onset of the transition to deconfined quarks and gluons has been observed at the lower end of the SPS energy region.
