Read article 'Quark Matter brings heavy ions to Oakland'
The Quark Matter 2004 conference, held in Oakland, California, in January, provided participants with evidence for the elusive quark-gluon plasma. Spencer Klein and Joakim Nystrand describe the highli...
Read article 'The challenge of the pentaquarks'
Volker Burkert reports on Pentaquark 2003, the first topical workshop on exotic baryons, which was held at Jefferson Lab in November.
Read article 'Gigabits, the Grid and the Guinness Book of Records'
High-speed networking over the Internet is becoming increasingly important as CERN and other laboratories around the world gear up for the Grid. Olivier Martin takes a look at the evolution towards CE...
Read article 'Exploiting the transatlantic light path'
Recent major exhibitions have provided the opportunity to demonstrate the potential of the high-speed link between Europe and North America, as Chris Jones reports.
Read article 'The atomic nucleus as a laboratory'
The 28th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics, which took place from 31 August to 7 September 2003 in Krzyze, Poland, looked at the atomic nucleus as a laboratory for fundamental processes.
Read article 'PHYSTAT 2003: statistics for quarks and quasars'
Given the impressive price tags of particle accelerators and telescopes, scientists are keen to extract the most from their hard-won data. In response to this, statistical analysis techniques have con...
Read article 'German astroparticle physics shows its strength'
Despite strong pressure on the budget for education and research, astroparticle physics in Germany is becoming a strong and autonomous branch of science, as Axel Lindner explains.
Read article 'From ‘tau’ to ‘top’ – the man behind the Dalitz plot'
Richard (Dick) Dalitz has spent more than 50 years in the study of elementary particles, the quark model and quantum chromodynamics. Here he talks to Melanie O'Byrne.
Read article 'China reinforces collaboration at the LHC'
A workshop in China provided the occasion for a rare event in particle physics - the simultaneous participation of the spokesmen for the four major experiments being prepared for the LHC.
Read article 'The quest for higher gradients'
A workshop at Argonne on high-gradient RF cavities attracted 90 participants, with contributions from CERN, KEK, SLAC, Argonne and Fermilab. Jim Norem reports.
