Read article 'PANIC99 conference in Uppsala'
PANIC99 conference in Uppsala
A regular feature of the nuclear physics scene is the Particles and Nuclei International Conference, which was held in Uppsala, Sweden on 10-16 June.
Read article 'PANIC99 conference in Uppsala'
Read article 'Nuclear treasure island'
Nuclear treasure island
1999 looks to be a vintage year for "superheavy" nuclei. These heavier-than-uranium isotopes are a 20th-century postcript to the Periodic Table.
Read article 'First postcard from the island of nuclear stability'
First postcard from the island of nuclear stability
Recent experiments that took place at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, near Moscow, reported evidence for element 114, the first inhabitant of a new island of nuclear stability.
Read article 'K for KLOE… …and Z for Zweig'
K for KLOE… …and Z for Zweig
The first kaons from the new DAFNE phimeson factory at Frascati underline a fascinating chapter in the evolution of particle physics.
Read article 'Understanding deconfinement'
Understanding deconfinement
Simulating the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, strongly interacting particles at high temperature or density are expected to produce weakly interacting "deconfined" quarks and gluons the famo...
Read article 'What’s the quark matter?'
What’s the quark matter?
Careful analysis of data collected by the NA50 experiment studying high-energy heavy-ion collisions at CERN shows clear signs of new behaviour, suggesting that under these conditions the colliding nu...
Read article 'Probing the pomeron'
Probing the pomeron
What ultimately controls the way particles interact? Different particles appear to interact at high energies in similar ways through a mechanism known as pomeron exchange. Sandy Donnachie explains wha...
Read article 'Neutrons in time'
Neutrons in time
A new limit on the electric dipole moment of the neutron comes from an experiment using ultra-cold neutrons at the research reactor at the international Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
Read article 'CERN: Circular solution to the enigma of nucleon spin'
CERN: Circular solution to the enigma of nucleon spin
Over half the nucleon's spin is unaccounted for, but circularly-polarized photons could soon reveal where it is.
Read article 'The ratchet of time'
The ratchet of time
New results remind us how, in the strange world of the neutral kaon, a fast rewind does not necessarily take you back to where you started.
