Read article 'Multiparticle dynamics goes to Crimea'
The 32nd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics was held on 7-13 September in Alushta, Ukraine. Since the first symposium in Paris 30 years ago, these meetings have covered the problems of ...
Read article 'LBNL delivers front end of SNS'
After four years of construction, the linear accelerator injector that will form the front end of the US SNS has been commissioned at LBNL. Fulfilling all its major design requirements and performing ...
Read article 'Researchers observe two-proton radioactivity'
Teams from France, Germany and Poland have recently observed two-proton radioactive decay from iron-45 nuclei. Bertram Blank explains how this opens up exciting new research avenues in nuclear physics...
Read article 'High-energy conference highlights precision results'
This year's Rochester International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Amsterdam, provided a showcase for precision results, and pointed the way forward for particle physics at future faciliti...
Read article 'Neutrino discoveries lead to precision measurements'
The science of neutrino physics has reached a watershed, with discovery giving way to precision measurements. Michael Altmann reports from the XXth International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Ast...
Read article 'Physicists and the decision to drop the bomb'
The tide of the Second World War turned in the Allies’ favour in 1943. In January the siege of Leningrad ended, and in February the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad and were in retreat before t...
Read article 'Fermilab: a laboratory at the frontier of research'
Since its foundation in 1967, creeping urbanization has taken away some of Fermilab's remoteness, but the famous buffalo still roam, and farm buildings evocative of frontier America dot the landscape ...
Read article 'How European physics reached across the Wall'
In the early 1960s, East German physicists collaborated with CERN, despite the restrictions that existed as a result of the Berlin Wall. Thomas Stange, author of a book on the history of the Zeuthen l...
Read article 'More to physics than meets the eye'
Handling, presenting and understanding the complex track patterns produced in the collisions of high-energy particles calls for considerable ingenuity. Gordon Fraser talks to CERN collision display sp...
Read article 'Quark matter conference highlights RHIC results'
Following the 2000 announcement by the CERN heavy-ion community of evidence for a new state of unbound quark-gluon matter, heavy-ion physicists have been eagerly awaiting results from Brookhaven's RHI...
