Read article 'Snake charming induces spin-flip'
The team, which includes physicists from Michigan and Indiana in the US, IHEP-Protvino in Russia and KEK in Japan, has charmed a string of magnets known as a Siberian snake to spin-flip stored protons...
Read article 'Mad about physics in Antananarivo'
The Malagasy capital of Antananarivo welcomed HEP-MAD '01, Madagascar's first conference on high-energy physics, at the end of September last year
Read article 'QCD comes to the home of Goethe and Schiller'
Weimar, a German town with strong European traditions, hosted the 4th European QCD network meeting on 12-15 September 2001.
Read article 'Climbing out of the nuclear valley'
With nuclear physics largely confined to a narrow band of stable isotopes, a new US machine aims to provide a wider nuclear perspective.
Read article 'Polarized colliders may prove to be the key in mapping out proton spin structure'
Arcane complication or vital property? Opinions about particle spin differ, but those who feel strongly about it say that more spin has to come into collision.
Read article 'Radioactive beam research gets new facility'
CERN's new nuclear physics facility, REX-ISOLDE, was commissioned at the end of October, opening up new horizons for the laboratory's nuclear physics community.
Read article 'BES accumulates 51 million J/psi events'
While plans to update the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and the Beijing Spectro-meter (BESII) experiment go ahead, the BES experiment has completed its second highly successful run at t...
Read article 'Why do high-energy collisions contrive to produce so few particles most of the time?'
The collisions produced by the new generation of high-energy hadron machines - Fermilab's revamped Tevatron for protons on antiprotons, Brookhaven's RHIC for heavy ions and CERN's LHC for protons and...
Read article 'Experiment boosts the idea of a nuclear halo'
The availability of relatively copious sources of antiprotons has stimulated the study of "exotic" atoms, in which a negatively charged antiproton replaces an orbital atomic electron. When they app...
Read article 'HERMES searches for the nucleon’s missing spin'
While the proton and the neutron are made up of quarks and gluons, the spin of the proton or the neutron is difficult to reconcile with the spins of quark and gluon components. For more than a deca...
