Read article 'Summers in St Croix revisited'
An unlikely blend of geography, sponsorship and physics focus seems to work. Founding director Tom Ferbel describes a 20-year tradition of NATO-sponsored physics study institutes in the West Indies.
Read article '200 GeV achieved for 2000'
In the last 10 years electroweak, physics has been transformed from a subtle effect into big science. At the forefront of this effort has been CERN's LEP electronpositron collider, which is now cele...
Read article 'From Z to ZZ – a decade of electroweak precision'
After having carefully amassed some 18 million Z particles one by one over 10 years, the experiments at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider are now producing Zs in pairs.
Read article 'Neutrino physics gains weight'
Neutrinos are always compelling physics. The neutrino sessions at this year's International Lepton-Photon Symposium at Stanford gave an up-to-date snapshot.
Read article 'A good BaBar gain'
The BaBar experiment represents “a new mode of US experimentation”, said Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) director Burt Richter at the experiment’s formal dedication on 13 A...
Read article 'Physicists focus on quest for Bs'
The physics of B particles is a major new focus of world particle physics research. A session at the recent lepton-photon symposium provided a useful overview.
Read article 'Why does CP violation matter to the universe?'
John Ellis explains how far and how deep the implications of CP violation extend.
Read article 'Looking at cosmic rays with accelerator detectors'
Large detectors constructed at accelerator labs can also be used in parallel for cosmic-ray studies. Effects measured in distant detectors could be correlated to provide a broader view of particles fr...
Read article 'ALEPH experiments go cosmic'
After analysing cosmic muon events, five were found with the highest muon density ever seen.Designed to study man-made electronpositron collisions in CERN's LEP ring, the ALEPH detector is also idea...
Read article 'L3+C = new tool set to study cosmic-ray muons'
Also under way at CERN is the L3 experiment at LEP, which has installed a 200 sq. m screen of scintillator to intercept comic rays arriving from the atmosphere.
