Read article 'Neutrino oscillations NOW'
Neutrino oscillations continuous changes of neutrino type or “flavour” might not only explain the observed lack of neutrinos from the Sun and the atmosphere, but may also pro...
Read article 'Applied superconductivity in Russia'
Ever since the pioneering work by P L Kapitza in 1924 (for which he shared the 1978 Nobel Prize), there has been a continual interest in Russia in producing high magnetic fields and putting them to wo...
Read article 'Twenty-five years of neutral currents'
A quarter of a century ago, after raging controversy and nailbiting doubt, an experiment at CERN discovered “neutral currents” in neutrino interactions. For the first time, the weak force ...
Read article 'High vacuum'
While the 27 km tunnel for the LEP electron–positron collider at CERN was being prepared, the Courier described non-evaporable getters used for its vacuum system.
Read article 'Cosmology comes of age'
A continuing challenge is to find this missing matter material we cannot see but which has to be there to explain the gravitational behaviour we do see. While cosmology is one of the oldest of ...
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...
