Read article 'Antennas tune in to high-energy particles'
After 40 years of research, physicists met at the First International Workshop on the Radio Detection of High Energy Particles to discuss the detection of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos using...
Read article 'Physics aids new medical techniques'
Since the discovery of X-rays, fundamental physics has been a source of ideas for radiography and medical imaging. A new imaging method firmly rooted in particle physics was chosen by Time magazine ...
Read article 'Spectrometry provides precision for the masses'
Extremely accurate experiments can be conducted when particles and nuclei are delicately guided using electric and magnetic fields. A recent conference surveyed the range of such research under way ...
Read article 'Nuclear masses hang in the balance'
A CERN-inspired development at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Stockholm, has produced physics results of impressive accuracy. Ingmar Bergström reports.
Read article 'CERN experience benefits students and specialists'
CERN has shown how international collaboration in science works. Different national attitudes complement and reinforce each other, but this needs to be experienced first.
Read article 'Micropattern detectors promise a big future'
As well as being important in particle physics, multiwire detectors have been applied in other fields: X-rays for medical imaging, ultraviolet and single-photon detection, neutron and crystal diffrac...
Read article 'Listening for the music of gravity'
The latest generation of high-precision experiments is bringing observers one step closer to detecting the elusive song of gravity waves.
Read article 'Glimpses of superhistory'
Nearly 30 years after its discovery, supersymmetry remains the prime candidate to cure all of the ills of our understanding of elementary particle behaviour. Putting aside the question of experimenta...
Read article 'Strength in numbers: particle physics goes global'
Particle physics has been "big science" for a long time. Its ambitious projects are also becoming more and more international, for it is only this way that the necessary resources can be amassed. A r...
Read article 'Season of Higgs and melodrama'
CERN's LEP electron-positron collider closed last year after a tantalizing and controversial finish, which revealed hints of the long-awaited Higgs particle - the missing link in today's picture of p...
