Read article 'Accelerators to span the globe'
International collaboration has always played a major role in particle physics experiments. Could this also be applied to the accelerators themselves? Here, Albrecht Wagner,chairman of the directora...
Read article 'Muons make the grade as microscopic probes'
The technique of muon spin rotation has become a major tool for the investigation of structure of all kinds of condensed matter and has even developed its own research communities. A recent major c...
Read article 'Opening the door to the quark-gluon plasma'
Recent experiments at CERN using high-energy beams of nuclei reported evidence for a quark-gluon plasma. Interpreting such evidence is not straightforward, and this article underlines the physics m...
Read article 'Between neutrinos and the deep blue sea'
For many years, physicists searching for and studying delicate physics effects have been working in the shelter of large underground installations. Now the ocean too is the scene of new physics dev...
Read article 'Raising the curtain on antimatter'
At first sight, physics and theatre are difficult to mix, but this is no reason not to try. Together, the genius of Dirac, the dilemma of antimatter, an unusual setting and some physical and mental ...
Read article 'MIT-Bates celebrates 25 years'
In 1967, helped by Massachusetts congressman William H Bates, who was then on the US Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, MIT acquired a site for a new electron accelerator, which is still going strong. ...
Read article 'Breakthroughs for radioactive beams'
New ideas for radioactive beam experiments, ranging from nuclear physics to low-temperature physics and supernovae, were on the agenda at a CERN workshop in March. Juha Äystöreports.
Read article 'Dynamic particle physics in the UK'
The European Committee for Future Accelerators, which met in London in March, was impressed by the vitality of particle physics in the UK.
Read article 'Computer control of physics is increasing'
Control by computer was once the domain of major facilities like particle accelerators. With these methods now being used across the board, a recent international conference on control systems for ...
Read article 'Not enough stellar mass objects to fill the galactic halo?'
The universe contains a lot more than meets the eye. Sophisticated experiments search diligently for this invisible dark matter. Here Alain Milsztajn of Saclay describes the latest results to emerg...
