Read article 'PHYSTAT: making the most of statistical techniques'
Statistics has always been an essential tool in experimental particle physics, and today this is truer than ever. In the early days emulsions and bubble-chamber photographs were scanned slowly by hand...
Read article 'The future looks bright for particle channelling'
Techniques that make use of the ordered structure of a crystal lattice to manipulate particle beams are finding an increasing number of applications.
Read article 'Tokyo meeting focuses on nucleon-spin problem'
Quark spin, gluon spin and the orbital angular momenta of quarks and gluons can all contribute to nucleon spin, but which has the main role? Physicists met in Tokyo to discuss.
Read article 'A magnetic memorial to decades of experiments'
Chris Jones looks back 45 years to when the arrival of a special magnet at CERN began a long dynasty of g-2 experiments that continued at the laboratory for more than 20 years.
Read article 'Setting the record straight'
Walter Oelert, leader of the team that 10 years ago obtained the first antimatter atoms, talks to Tomasz Rozek about the fact and fiction surrounding the discovery.
Read article 'Do gamma rays reveal our galaxy’s dark matter?'
An observed excess of diffuse gamma rays traces the distribution of dark matter in our galaxy through its annihilations. Wim de Boer describes a recent analysis of the data.
Read article 'Gamma-ray bursts: a look behind the headlines'
Has the 35 year old mystery regarding gamma-ray bursts really been solved, and are recent observations really a complete surprise? Arnon Dar thinks not.
Read article 'ILC comes to Snowmass'
In August nearly 700 scientists and engineers from North America, Asia and Europe got together at Snowmass in the US to advance the design of the International Linear Collider and its detectors, and t...
Read article 'How CERN keeps its cool'
Research at CERN centres on very high particle energies, but it also involves the application of very low temperature techniques. Giorgio Passardi and Laurent Tavian take a look at the evolution of ...
Read article 'REX-ISOLDE accelerates the first isomeric beams'
CERN's REX-ISOLDE facility has opened up a new avenue for nuclear investigations by accelerating isomeric beams for the first time, as Georgi Georgiev explains.
