Read article 'The Large Hadron Collider runs on woman power'
In particle physics, as in much of the rest of physics and engineering, the practitioners are generally men. However, women do become involved and some even break through to important positions.
Read article 'Neuroscience explores our internal universe'
Neuroscientist Wolf Singer engages the audience at CERN during his colloquium on "The brain, an orchestra without conductor".
Read article 'Reflections offer new way to bend particles'
The reflection of particle's trajectory is currently used by accelerators and will be important for the future generation of accelerators.
Read article 'Terascale Alliance takes off in Germany'
The next big advances in particle physics are expected to happen at the "terascale". The tremendous complexity and size of experiments at the LHC and the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) c...
Read article 'Trieste workshop puts a RICH variety on show'
Ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters provide a unique tool to identify charged particles by measuring their velocity, even when it differs from the velocity of light by only one part in 10 million....
Read article 'Detector controls for LHC experiments'
Wayne Salter explains the basis for a new collaborative approach
Read article 'Under control: keeping the LHC beams on track'
Pierre Charrue describes the infrastructure to ensure correct operation
Read article 'Control systems for big physics reach maturity'
The 11th ICALEPCS conference looked at projects around the world.
Read article 'QCD: string theory meets collider physics'
Two fields of physics met at the 2007 DESY theory workshop
Read article 'Barry Barish and the GDE: mission achievable'
Barish talks about his career, life and the future of particle physics and the proposed ILC.
