Read article 'When quarks and gluons become free'
When quarks and gluons become free
Recent results and future experiments were the topics in a workshop to look into exactly what happens as strongly interacting matter becomes deconfined.
Read article 'When quarks and gluons become free'
Read article 'Cryogenic operations come in from the cold'
Cryogenic operations come in from the cold
A recent meeting at Jefferson Lab has inaugurated a new biennial workshop on reducing operating costs and increasing stability and reliability in a new generation of refrigeration plants for supercond...
Read article 'A marriage of pixels and proportional counters'
A marriage of pixels and proportional counters
Different technologies come together in the gas pixel detector, a device that for the first time brings very high resolving power to gas detectors, as Ronaldo Bellazzini explains.
Read article 'From bent crystals to nanostructures'
From bent crystals to nanostructures
A recent workshop in Frascati highlighted some of the exciting possibilities for future developments in channelling particle beams in ordered structures.
Read article 'MEG goes in search of the forbidden'
MEG goes in search of the forbidden
The 30th anniversary of the proton accelerator complex at PSI heralds the start of a new generation of particle-physics experiments, with the search for the decay of the muon to a positron and a photo...
Read article 'The rebirth of the FFAG'
The rebirth of the FFAG
After 50 years in waiting, fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators are at last being built - for a wide variety of applications. Michael Craddock reports on the current status.
Read article 'In the tracks of the bubble chamber'
In the tracks of the bubble chamber
Horst Wenninger pieces together many of the aspects that made the bubble-chamber programme an important part of CERN's development as an international laboratory.
Read article 'The beta-decay route to a high-flux neutrino source'
The beta-decay route to a high-flux neutrino source
Online isotope separation combined with some imaginative accelerator "gymnastics" could provide a high-intensity neutrino beam at CERN. Steve Hancock describes a possible scenario.
Read article 'The beginning of long-term planning in CERN'
The beginning of long-term planning in CERN
In its early days CERN was budgeting a year at a time, but after a crisis in 1961 it became clear that long-term planning was essential. Mervyn Hine looks back to the introduction of a four-year plann...
Read article 'Joining up the dots with the strong force'
Joining up the dots with the strong force
A new variation on an old technique is yielding the most precise results so far in lattice calculations of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, as Christine Davies explains.
