Read article 'From bent crystals to nanostructures'
A recent workshop in Frascati highlighted some of the exciting possibilities for future developments in channelling particle beams in ordered structures.
Read article 'MEG goes in search of the forbidden'
The 30th anniversary of the proton accelerator complex at PSI heralds the start of a new generation of particle-physics experiments, with the search for the decay of the muon to a positron and a photo...
Read article 'The rebirth of the FFAG'
After 50 years in waiting, fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators are at last being built - for a wide variety of applications. Michael Craddock reports on the current status.
Read article 'In the tracks of the bubble chamber'
Horst Wenninger pieces together many of the aspects that made the bubble-chamber programme an important part of CERN's development as an international laboratory.
Read article 'The beta-decay route to a high-flux neutrino source'
Online isotope separation combined with some imaginative accelerator "gymnastics" could provide a high-intensity neutrino beam at CERN. Steve Hancock describes a possible scenario.
Read article 'The beginning of long-term planning in CERN'
In its early days CERN was budgeting a year at a time, but after a crisis in 1961 it became clear that long-term planning was essential. Mervyn Hine looks back to the introduction of a four-year plann...
Read article 'Joining up the dots with the strong force'
A new variation on an old technique is yielding the most precise results so far in lattice calculations of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, as Christine Davies explains.
Read article 'CANDLE lights up research in Armenia'
As Armenian scientists continue their efforts to promote the creation of the CANDLE facility, a third-generation light source, Vasili Tsakanov explains the importance of the project both to the region...
Read article 'The search for the disappearing neutrinos'
A series of three workshops has considered a new generation of experiments at nuclear reactors, which could help to pin down the neutrino mixing matrix.
Read article 'Theory and experiment peer across the frontier'
The fourth conference in the "Beyond" series presented a clear overview of - and beyond - the current frontiers of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
