Read article 'Uppsala 2005: leptons, photons and a lot more'
The biennial Lepton-Photon conference was held in Uppsala on 30 June - 5 July. The talks erected the impressive edifice known as the Standard Model and showed that experimental ingenuity has not yet s...
Read article 'Close nucleon encounters'
Jefferson Lab may have directly observed short-range nucleon correlations, with densities similar to those at the heart of a neutron star.
Read article 'Wisdom generation in the Alps: a student’s tale'
Sezen Sekmen describes her experience as a student at the European School for High Energy Physics, which was hosted this year by Austria in the scenic town of Kitzbühel.
Read article 'H-jet measures beam polarization at RHIC'
The RHIC accelerator collides 100 GeV polarized protons head-on to study the contribution of gluons to the proton spin. But how is the degree of polarization of the beam known? Willy Haeberli explain...
Read article 'Deep inside the proton'
The DIS 2005 workshop reviewed progress in deep inelastic scattering and quantum chromodynamics, and provided the chance to plan for the future, reports Wesley Smith.
Read article 'Symposium previews the future of hadron colliders'
The HCP2005 Symposium, held in the Swiss Alps, discussed the latest results from the Tevatron and the prospect that the LHC will open new scientific frontiers.
Read article 'Masterclass spreads the word for physics'
More than 3000 teenagers from across Europe spent a day working at the frontier of physics in the first European Masterclasses
Read article 'HELEN network unites Europe and Latin America'
Luciano Maiani describes the creation of the High Energy Physics Latin-American-European Network - HELEN - which aims to promote fundamental physics in Latin America through training the younger gener...
Read article 'Investigating the proton’s strange sea'
Several research groups are conducting experiments to determine the exact contributions of strange quarks in the quark-gluon "sea" to the proton's charge distribution and magnetization.
Read article 'Network boosts progress in therapy with light ions'
Le réseau ENLIGHT dynamise la thérapie par ions légers ENLIGHT, Réseau européen de recherche sur la thérapie par les ions légers, a récemment tenu sa derniè...
