Read article 'Heavy physics implications'
This year's major particle physics meeting showed that heavy "flavours", whether they are strongly interacting quarks or weakly interacting leptons, are still very much at the cutting edge of today's ...
Read article 'Neutrino physics gains weight'
Neutrinos are always compelling physics. The neutrino sessions at this year's International Lepton-Photon Symposium at Stanford gave an up-to-date snapshot.
Read article 'Physicists focus on quest for Bs'
The physics of B particles is a major new focus of world particle physics research. A session at the recent lepton-photon symposium provided a useful overview.
Read article 'CP Violation'
A complete theoretical and phenomenological study of CP violation and the CKM matrix, including the implications for heavy quarks.
Read article 'First K2K events seen at KEK lab'
This is the first step towards the verification of the neutrino oscillation results given by the Super-Kamiokande last year.
Read article 'KEK: initial B for BELLE'
On 1 June, after five years of planning and five years of construction, the BELLE detector recorded its first B meson events at the KEKB electronpositron B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan. During this fir...
Read article 'NA48 measures direct CP violation'
With a first result announced from a major experiment at CERN, 1999 looks like being a vintage year for the measurement of CP violation the effect that enables nature to differentiate between matte...
Read article 'B-factory sees first B events'
On the morning of 26 May 1999, physicists recorded the first events in the large BaBar detector at the asymmetric B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Read article 'DAFNE and KLOE’s kaons'
The DAFNE electronpositron collider at Frascati and its KLOE detector are flexing their muscles.
Read article 'Is spacetime symmetric?'
Do particles and their antiparticles behave in the same way? Even tiny differences could be amplified over astronomical distances to produce very large effects.
