Read article '50 years of the GIM mechanism'
A symposium to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani's explanation of the suppression of strangeness-changing neutral currents was held in Shanghai.
Read article 'Astroparticle physicists head down under'
Wide-ranging discussions at TeVPA featured the DAMA signal, GeV gamma rays from the galactic centre, the 21 cm radio line, AMS's positron excess and a host of cosmic messengers.
Read article 'Linacs pushed to the limit in Chamonix'
Linac applications discussed at High Gradient 2019 ranged from CLIC to XFELs and medical accelerators.
Read article 'Space–time symmetries scrutinised in Indiana'
The Standard-Model Extension provides a framework for testing CPT and Lorentz symmetries by including all operators that break them in an effective field theory.
Read article 'Hyper-active neutrino physicists visit London'
2015 Nobel-laureate Takaaki Kajita opened NuPhys19 by confirming that construction of Hyper-Kamiokande will begin this year.
Read article 'CERN’s proton synchrotron turns 60'
A colloquium was held at CERN on 25 November 2019.
Read article 'Flavour heavyweights converge on Ljubljana'
Highlights of Beauty 2019 included lepton-universality anomalies, CP violation, pentaquarks, ultra-rare decays and reports on Belle II and the LHCb upgrade.
Read article 'European astroparticle, nuclear and particle physicists join forces'
The chairs of APPEC, NuPECC and ECFA call for novel expressions of interest to tackle common challenges.
Read article 'When twistors met loops'
Carlo Rovelli reports on a conference which brought together two communities that have evolved independently for many years.
Read article 'Superconductivity heats up in Dresden'
A better understanding of the role of magnetic flux trapping and impurities for RF losses has pushed state-of-the-art niobium to near its theoretical limit.
