Read article '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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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...
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.
