Read article 'In a spin at Brookhaven'
In a spin at Brookhaven
The mysterious quantity that is spin took centre stage at Brookhaven for the SPIN2002 meeting last September. Yousef Makdisi and Thomas Roser report.
Read article 'In a spin at Brookhaven'
Read article 'Multiparticle dynamics goes to Crimea'
Multiparticle dynamics goes to Crimea
The 32nd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics was held on 7-13 September in Alushta, Ukraine. Since the first symposium in Paris 30 years ago, these meetings have covered the problems of ...
Read article 'Researchers observe two-proton radioactivity'
Researchers observe two-proton radioactivity
Teams from France, Germany and Poland have recently observed two-proton radioactive decay from iron-45 nuclei. Bertram Blank explains how this opens up exciting new research avenues in nuclear physics...
Read article 'High-energy conference highlights precision results'
High-energy conference highlights precision results
This year's Rochester International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Amsterdam, provided a showcase for precision results, and pointed the way forward for particle physics at future faciliti...
Read article 'Quark matter conference highlights RHIC results'
Quark matter conference highlights RHIC results
Following the 2000 announcement by the CERN heavy-ion community of evidence for a new state of unbound quark-gluon matter, heavy-ion physicists have been eagerly awaiting results from Brookhaven's RHI...
Read article 'Workshops focus on photon-hadron collisions'
Workshops focus on photon-hadron collisions
As well as taking proton-proton and heavy-ion physics into a new energy regime, CERN's LHC will produce the world's highest-energy photon-hadron interactions, providing a powerful fundamental physics ...
Read article 'PASI studies new states of matter'
PASI studies new states of matter
For nearly two decades nuclear and particle physicists have been searching for experimental evidence of a new state of deconfined hot quark-gluon matter. A recent study institute in Brazil took stock ...
Read article 'Nucleon insights: echoes from QCD-N’02'
Nucleon insights: echoes from QCD-N’02
A recent workshop on the nucleon has pinpointed near to mid-term goals for QCD hadron structure physics. Nicola Bianchi and Rainer Jakob report.
Read article 'Heavy ions offer a new approach to fusion'
Heavy ions offer a new approach to fusion
Three US laboratories have teamed up to form the Heavy-Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory to investigate a novel approach to fusion energy. Christine Celata profiles the highly tangible programme ...
Read article 'Radioactive beam research notches up 50 years'
Radioactive beam research notches up 50 years
Research using accelerated beams of short-lived nuclei has grown into a major activity. Karsten Riisager reports from a recent symposium in Copenhagen that looked at the status and future prospects of...
