Read article 'Loops and legs in quantum field theory'
The conference brought together more than 100 researchers from 18 countries to discuss the latest results in precision calculations for particle physics at colliders.
Read article 'Putting the Pauli exclusion principle on trial'
If detected, even the tiniest violation of the exclusion principle would revolutionise physics.
Read article 'Particle physics meets quantum optics'
The sixth International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP) took place on 17–29 August in Kolymbari, Crete.
Read article 'Doubting darkness'
An interview with Erik Verlinde, who argues that dark matter is an illusion caused by an incomplete understanding of gravity.
Read article 'General relativity at 100'
Testing Einstein’s masterpiece with ever increasing precision.
Read article 'Gravity’s quantum side'
There is little doubt that, in spite of their overwhelming success in describing phenomena over a vast range of distances, general relativity (GR) and the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics are i...
Read article 'The many lives of supergravity'
The early 1970s was a pivotal period in the history of particle physics. Following the discovery of asymptotic freedom and the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism a few years earlier, it was the time wh...
Read article 'Testing times for space–time symmetry'
Numerous experiments, many of them at CERN, are testing for violations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry in the search for new physics.
Read article 'Chern–Simons (Super) Gravity – 100 Years of General Relativity (vol. 2)'
Written on the basis of a set of lecture notes, this book provides a concise introduction to Chern–Simons (super) gravity theories accessible to graduate students and researchers in physics and math...
Read article 'Inflation and String Theory'
This complete and accessible text, written by two of the leading researchers in the field, provides a modern treatment of inflationary cosmology and its connection to string theory and elementary part...
