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.
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...
