Read article 'Second postcard from the island of stability'
Experiments on synthetic nuclei continue to explore a world that is very remote from our own experience. Recent studies at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, near Moscow, report anot...
Read article 'Workshop looks through the lattice'
Faced with the difficulty of doing exact calculations, theorists are turning to approximation techniques to understand and predict what happens at the quark level.
Read article 'Spectrometry provides precision for the masses'
Extremely accurate experiments can be conducted when particles and nuclei are delicately guided using electric and magnetic fields. A recent conference surveyed the range of such research under way ...
Read article 'Nuclear masses hang in the balance'
A CERN-inspired development at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Stockholm, has produced physics results of impressive accuracy. Ingmar Bergström reports.
Read article 'Quarks and Gluons: a Century of Particle Charges'
Bryan Webber reviews in 2001 Quarks and Gluons: a Century of Particle Charges.
Read article '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'
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?'
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'
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'
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. ...
