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...
Read article '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 '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'
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...
