Read article 'How Borexino will stare at the Sun'
The energy-dependent deficit of the measured solar neutrino flux compared to the predictions of the Standard Solar Model is often called the Solar Neutrino Problem. In recent years, this problem has b...
Read article 'Nuclei as secret agents'
ISOLDE is a source of radioactive-particle beams with applications ranging from nuclear medicine to astrophysics. Recent ISOLDE experiments have opened up a new approach to examining the interface bet...
Read article 'Niels Bohr and the 20th century'
Niels Bohr (18851962) did not coincide entirely with the 20th century, but was nevertheless one of its great motive powers. The meeting, organized by the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, brou...
Read article 'Precision beams for hadron therapy'
Increased life expectancy goes hand in hand with support from science. At present, about one in three of us will have an encounter with cancer and, in developed countries, about one in eight will have...
Read article 'LEP helps fill CKM matrix'
The CabibboKobayashiMaskawa (CKM) matrix codifies the probabilities of quark or antiquark transitions in weak interactions. Its individual elements the probabilities that a quark or...
Read article 'QED: surviving the bad press'
Weinberg’s irreverent remark about quantum electrodynamics (made in his 1986 Dirac Memorial Lecture) is just one among many made by such luminaries as Dirac, who suggested that the remarkable ag...
Read article 'SLC perched on a high'
Just before noon on 8 June, operators at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) shut down the SLC Stanford Linear Collider for what may have been the last time. It had been a record-breaking ye...
Read article 'A hundred years ago…'
Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895 startled the world of science and immediately motivated other researchers to investigate fresh paths. In the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, J J Tho...
Read article 'Technological spinoffs from accelerators'
The May 1994 issue of the Courier featured an article by Oscar Barbalat about the industrial benefits of particle accelerators.
Read article 'Needles in high-speed haystacks'
The new generation of big proton–proton colliders now being planned in Europe and the US aims to open up the collision physics of the constituent quarks and gluons hidden deep inside the proton. Loc...
