Read article 'High-precision masses test the Standard Model at ISOLTRAP'
The atomic mass of a nucleus is important in a wide range of physics, as it conveys information on the nuclear binding energy. It is a unique property of each of the more than 3000 known nuclides. Now...
Read article 'Two dedicated satellites reveal the Earth’s pull on space-time'
The general relativistic prediction of the Lense-Thirring effect has been confirmed to a precision of less than 10%. The result was obtained by measurements of the position of two satellites over a pe...
Read article 'Muon chambers are on course for ATLAS'
On 5 October, technicians at NIKHEF, the Dutch National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics, glued the last layer of aluminium drift tubes on the 101st and final ATLAS precision muon...
Read article 'Do gamma rays indicate galactic dark matter?'
Is the recent detection of very-high-energy gamma rays from the galactic centre revealing the presence of dark matter? Or, is dark matter at the origin of the electron-positron annihilation in our gal...
Read article 'Asymptotic freedom wins Nobel'
The 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for their "discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
Read article 'Laser-driven plasma waves deliver the best beams so far'
Three teams, in the UK, the US and France, have reported breakthroughs in the laser-driven plasma acceleration of electrons.
Read article 'CERN celebrates its 50th birthday'
On the date of CERN's 50th anniversary, 29 September 2004, the organization's host state authorities lit up the sky in celebration.
Read article 'Finding the real world in a foam bath'
A new approach to simulating quantum geometry suggests that starting with a random froth, one might expect a world of three dimensions of space and one of time to appear naturally at large scales.
Read article 'Cold technology for future linear collider'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) has accepted that superconducting technology should be used for a future electron-positron linear collider in the energy range 0.5 to 1.0 TeV...
Read article 'Physicists meet in Beijing at ICHEP’04…'
ICHEP'04, the 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics, was successfully held in Beijing from 16-22 August, hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and the Chinese Academy of...
