Read article 'Neutrons in the material world'
Some 15 years ago, an ambitious plan to create a neutron source out of an aging particle accelerator came to fruition. Today, accelerator, detector and data acquisition developments continue to play...
Read article 'Honouring Burton Richter'
Winner of a Nobel Prize for physics, a longtime laboratory director and a leading figure in international science - Burton Richter's contributions range wide. A recent celebration at the Stanford Li...
Read article 'Bogolyubov conference caravan takes in Moscow, Dubna and Kiev'
Last year the 90th anniversary of the birth of Russian scientific polymath Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was marked by an international conference, which travelled through the three cities where he...
Read article 'Discovery of doubly magic nickel'
An experiment at the French GANIL laboratory has recently discovered a new "doubly magic" nucleus - only the tenth such isotope known to science.
Read article 'SESAME: a mini CERN for the Middle East'
Science brings nations together, and synchrotron radiation facilities bring different kinds of science together.
Read article 'Weapons abandoned in favour of detectors'
The Cold War once absorbed a tremendous amount of resources and talent on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Particle physics is now at the forefront of a major, international effort that is refocusing...
Read article 'The Delphic Oracleand antimatter'
This winter, CERN's LEP pit formed the backdrop for an unusual theatrical performance portraying Paul Dirac's mathematical discovery of antimatter symmetry.
Read article 'Physics in space'
Superconducting tunnel junctions have been developed as photon-counting spectroscopic detectors for ground- and space based astrophysical research. Arrays of tantalum-based junctions have now reache...
Read article 'Superconducting radiofrequency'
Accelerators are increasingly turning to superconducting technology to transfer power to the particle beams. The biennial workshop is a shop window for progress.
Read article 'What’s new in particles and cosmology?'
The 1999 DESY Theory Workshop concentrated on the growing symbiosis between particle physics (particularly neutrinos) and cosmology.
