Feature Archives – Page 110 of 140

A friend and mentor

Valentine Telegdi talks about his relationship with Victor Weisskopf, former CERN Director General who recently passed away.

Looking forward to physics at Tevatron Run II

It's taken a while, but the world's highest-energy accelerator is back. Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider is once again exploring the high-energy frontier, with newly upgraded detectors a...

Supersymmetry reviewed from the past to the future

Some 400 theorists and experimentalists gathered at DESY in June 2002 for the SUSY02 conference to discuss aspects of supersymmetry and the prospects for unification physics. Jan Louis and Peter Zerwa...

Radiation hard silicon detectors lead the way

3D silicon detectors offer exciting new approaches to imaging for particle physics and other fields. Cinzia DaVia' explains.

ASACUSA measures microwave transition in antiprotonic helium

The ASACUSA collaboration has reinforced its status as a paragon of precision physics by following up its impressive six parts in 108 measurement of the antiproton's charge and mass with new measureme...

TRIUMF: the home of Canadian subatomic physics

The acronym for Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, TRIUMF, was out of date almost as soon as it was coined. Derived from “TRI-University Meson Facility”, ...

In a spin at Brookhaven

The mysterious quantity that is spin took centre stage at Brookhaven for the SPIN2002 meeting last September. Yousef Makdisi and Thomas Roser report.

CERN summer experience benefits US students

Northeastern University's programme of research experience for US undergraduates at CERN is five years old. Suzanne Harvey takes a look at its impact.

Accelerator conference showcases diversity

This year's European Particle Accelerator Conference, held in Paris, highlighted the growing diversity of particle accelerator technology. Francesco Ruggiero and Leonid Rivkin report.