Read article 'HERMES searches for the nucleon’s missing spin'
While the proton and the neutron are made up of quarks and gluons, the spin of the proton or the neutron is difficult to reconcile with the spins of quark and gluon components. For more than a deca...
Read article 'Report urges scientists to secure their records'
A new report underlines the importance of keeping scientific records to safeguard our scientific heritage. Once an experiment is complete, its responsibilities are not over.
Read article 'Biology research becomes crystal clear'
A new range of PET instrumentation, based on research and development experience from high-energy physics experiments, aims to provide biology researchers with powerful tools to monitor the effects o...
Read article 'Take a deep breath of nuclear spin'
A technique based on using spin-oriented nuclei of helium-3, which has been developed for nuclear physics experiments, also has impressive capabilities for lung imaging.
Read article 'Looking back on the story of the space-time odyssey'
The formal inauguration of the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan brought together distinguished speakers from a range of disciplines to look back on the achievements of phy...
Read article 'Second postcard from the island of stability'
Experiments on synthetic nuclei continue to explore a world that is very remote from our own experience. Recent studies at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, near Moscow, report anot...
Read article 'Close encounters with clusters of computers'
To satisfy their ever-increasing demand for more and affordable computing power, particle physics experiments are using clusters of off-the-shelf PCs. A recent workshop at Fermilab looked at the imp...
Read article 'Weighing the antiproton'
The ASACUSA collaboration has just published a determination of the antiproton charge and mass to an incredible six parts in a hundred million. How was this impressive precision achieved and why is ...
Read article 'LHC insertions: the key to CERN’s new accelerator'
In October 2001, production of the specialised magnets that perform specific tasks, such as final focus, and injection and extraction of beams, was in full swing.
Read article 'The international jigsaw puzzle'
As well as the 20 nations of the CERN family, several other nations further afield are making major contributions to the laboratory's flagship Large Hadron Collider.
