Read article 'The tale of the Hagedorn temperature'
Johann Rafelski and Torleif Ericson recall Rolf Hagedorn's discovery of a limiting temperature - in effect a melting point for hadrons - and its influence on the physics of strong interactions.
Read article 'Quantum Chromodynamics – High Energy Experiments and Theory'
Harald Fritsch reviews in 2003 Quantum Chromodynamics - High Energy Experiments and Theory.
Read article 'Pomeron Physics and QCD'
Jeff Forshaw reviews in 2003 Pomeron Physics and QCD.
Read article 'JLab results put new spin on the vacuum'
New measurements from the US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab (JLab) in Virginia are challenging existing ideas on how quark-antiquark pairs are produced from "nothing" - that is, the vacuum.
Read article 'Hadronic interactions in Slovakia'
The Hadron Structure 2002 conference covered topics ranging from spin studies to relativistic nuclear physics, as Dusan Bruncko and Jozef Urbán report.
Read article 'Japanese use phonons to cool neutrons'
A new technique for cooling neutrons has been pioneered in Japan and offers the promise of an intense source of ultracold neutrons.
Read article 'DAFNE goes hypernuclear'
A new experiment at the Frascati laboratory's φ-factory is set to investigate the strange world of the hypernucleus.
Read article 'The continuing challenge of quantum chromodynamics'
Thirty years after quantum chromodynamics was invented, tackling its difficulties continues to fascinate a host of theorists - and often proves a necessity for unravelling the limits of the Standard M...
Read article 'Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter'
John Cuckney reviews in 2003 Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter.
Read article 'CERN hosts first meeting of Quarkonium Working Group'
The first workshop of the recently founded Quarkonium Working Group (QWG) took place at CERN on 8-10 November 2002, nearly 30 years after the observation of charmonium - the first of the heavy quarkon...
