40 years of CERN’s Proton Synchrotron
CERN's Proton Synchrotron achieved its first high-energy beams 40 years ago. The pioneers at CERN had dared to follow a new, untested route in a bid to become the world's highest energy machine. Now, ...
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CERN's Proton Synchrotron achieved its first high-energy beams 40 years ago. The pioneers at CERN had dared to follow a new, untested route in a bid to become the world's highest energy machine. Now, ...
Radioactive ion beams provide access to a variety of research, from basic nuclear physics to the life sciences. Thomas Nilsson looks at the varied radioactive ion beam research programme of CERN's vet...
The discovery of spin was a surprise, and the subsequent history of spin physics has lived up to this reputation. With plenty of spin puzzles still around, physicists have to look at how to handle sp...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first particle beams at the former Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, now better known as the Paul Scherrer Institute.
While we wait for a definitive sighting of the enigmatic Higgs particle, there is no lack of careful precision work for the experiments at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider. Bob Clare of MIT look...
Antiprotons have been a highlight of close-of-the-century physics. CERN's Antiproton Decelerator will continue this tradition into the 21st century.
A recent workshop in Japan set the scene for a range of experiments at CERN's AD machine, which will synthesize and explore atoms of antimatter. John Eades reports.
The problem of publishing physics papers that have long lists of authors and reconciling it with the need to give due recognition to the contributions of individuals or small groups has long been reco...
The text of the official statement on the creation of the new "scientific notes" class of publications.
Bjørn Wiik, visionary and talented director-general of the DESY Laboratory, Hamburg, died in a domestic accident in February, leaving the laboratory, and a major part of the world's high-energy physi...