Read article 'mSUGRA celebrates its 20th year'
The SUGRA20 conference recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the invention of minimal supergravity grand unification, or mSUGRA, as Paul Frampton and Pran Nath describe.
Read article 'The tale of the Hagedorn temperature'
Johann Rafelski and Torleif Ericson recall Rolf Hagedorn's discovery of a limiting temperature - in effect a melting point for hadrons - and its influence on the physics of strong interactions.
Read article 'Frontier techniques for particle physics and beyond'
Giorgio Chiarelli reports from the 9th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, held this year on the island of Elba.
Read article 'Decision to flood hits US underground science plans'
The announcement that pumping will stop at the Homestake mine has clouded the future of the favoured site for a proposed major underground laboratory in the US.
Read article 'The legacy of the bubble chamber'
A recent one-day meeting in Bologna looked back on the era of the bubble chamber, and recalled its technical achievements and main discoveries, as well as the sociology behind its development.
Read article 'Testing times for strings'
The "hidden" dimensions of string theory may be much larger than was previously thought and may soon come within experimental reach, together with the strings themselves. Ignatios Antoniadis gives an ...
Read article 'Developing countries and CERN'
John Ellis looks at what CERN can offer scientists - and the wider society - in developing countries.
Read article 'The antiproton: a subatomic actor with many roles'
From providing a window on fundamental symmetries to probing the strong interaction, LEAP'03 covered the many parts played by low-energy antiprotons from accelerators, as John Eades reports.
Read article 'CERN-Asia Fellows and Associates Programme'
CERN offers three grants every year to East, Southeast and South Asia* postgraduates under the age of 33, enabling them to participate in its scientific programme in the areas of experimental and theo...
Read article 'A new life for Indiana’s cyclotron'
The Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) was originally built as a laboratory for medium-energy nuclear physics, and began operations in 1975. By the 1990s the research programme had begun to ...
