Read article 'Fred Hoyle: pioneer in nuclear astrophysics'
Fred Hoyle, who died in 2001, is best known as a cosmologist. But, as Simon Mitton relates, his career in physics began with the weak interaction and moved on to a crucial discovery in nuclear physics...
Read article 'Thinking big: the next generation of detectors'
The conference on the Next Generation of Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors looked at the development of new, large-scale detectors. Alain de Bellefon reports.
Read article '40 great years of the Rencontres de Moriond'
"Theorists and experimenters must listen to each other." This leitmotif inspired the first Rencontres de Moriond in 1966, and it was just as relevant at this year's event.
Read article 'Telescope takes next step to high-energy frontier'
In April, while Lake Baikal in Siberia was iced over, the neutrino telescope 1.1 km below the surface was successfully upgraded with three additional strings. Renamed NT200+ it is tailored to search ...
Read article 'ClearPET offers improved insight into animal brains'
An efficient new PET scanner for the small animal brain, developed by the Crystal Clear collaboration, is now in production.
Read article 'PET and CT: a perfect fit'
In the June 2005 issue of CERN Courier (the last to be published jointly in French and English), David Townsend – who began his pioneering work in PET imaging 30 years earlier while a staff member a...
Read article 'Energy-recovering linacs begin maturing'
The ERL2005 Workshop at Jefferson Lab in March - the first of its kind - reviewed an innovative use of electron linacs in light sources and, potentially, particle colliders.
Read article 'HERA and LHC workshops help prepare for the future'
A series of workshops has given scientists the opportunity to discover how the studies currently being carried out at HERA will influence future physics at the LHC.
Read article 'Records fall at Cornell'
Experiments at Cornell are breaking records for accelerating gradients and Q values in superconducting radio-frequency cavities, reports Hasan Padamsee.
Read article 'Hard probes conference finds success in Portugal'
In November, more than 100 enthusiasts headed to a fishing village near Lisbon for the first international conference on hard probes of heavy-ion collisions, Hard Probes 2004.
