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.
Read article 'Deuteron-gold collisions clarify ‘jet quenching’ results'
New measurements at RHIC provide further insight into heavy-ion collisions at high energies.
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.
