Read article 'Quarks and Gluons: a Century of Particle Charges'
Quarks and Gluons: a Century of Particle Charges
Bryan Webber reviews in 2001 Quarks and Gluons: a Century of Particle Charges.
Read article 'Quarks and Gluons: a Century of Particle Charges'
Read article 'Experiments revisit the quark-gluon soup'
Experiments revisit the quark-gluon soup
The main goal of this research is to explore the transition from ordinary hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma - matter as it is thought to have existed at the birth of the universe.
Read article 'Mapping quark confinement by exotic particles'
Mapping quark confinement by exotic particles
According to our increasing understanding of quark physics, more kinds of particle should exist than are currently known. New experiments at the Jefferson Laboratory are setting out to search for th...
Read article 'Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?'
Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?
With quark-gluon calculations being extremely difficult, physicists have to use their ingenuity to get results. The most popular approach is to use powerful supercomputers to simulate a discrete sp...
Read article 'Opening the door to the quark-gluon plasma'
Opening the door to the quark-gluon plasma
Recent experiments at CERN using high-energy beams of nuclei reported evidence for a quark-gluon plasma. Interpreting such evidence is not straightforward, and this article underlines the physics m...
Read article 'MIT-Bates celebrates 25 years'
MIT-Bates celebrates 25 years
In 1967, helped by Massachusetts congressman William H Bates, who was then on the US Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, MIT acquired a site for a new electron accelerator, which is still going strong. ...
Read article 'Breakthroughs for radioactive beams'
Breakthroughs for radioactive beams
New ideas for radioactive beam experiments, ranging from nuclear physics to low-temperature physics and supernovae, were on the agenda at a CERN workshop in March. Juha Äystöreports.
Read article 'Harping on about hadrons'
Harping on about hadrons
The Hadron Production Experiment at the CERN PS proton synchrotron is a collaboration of institutes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK as well as CERN and the JI...
Read article 'Taking a new close look at the proton’s weak magnetism'
Taking a new close look at the proton’s weak magnetism
Ever since Otto Stern surprised his colleagues in 1933 by announcing that the proton's magnetic moment was some three times as large as expected, physicists have puzzled over the origin of this effect...
Read article 'Heavy implications for the first second'
Heavy implications for the first second
After a decade of running, the results from CERN's research programme with high-energy nuclear beams provide tantalizing glimpses of mechanisms that shaped our universe.
