Read article 'Experiments finally unveil a precise portrait of the Z'
After six years of preparation, a 300 page article combining thousands of measurements from five different experiments presents a precision study of the properties of the Z boson.
Read article 'Fifty years of antiprotons'
It is 50 years since Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain and their group first created an antiproton. Lynn Yarris describes their achievement at Berkeley's Bevatron in 1955.
Read article 'New exhibition unites people and ideas'
The 1st European Research and Innovation Exhibition, held in Paris, attracted 24,000 visitors. Astrophysicist Jean Audouze, chairman of the exhibition's Scientific Committee, talked to Beatrice Bressa...
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
