Read article 'D0 finds evidence for WZ pair production'
The D0 Collaboration at Fermilab has announced the first measurement of the cross-section for WZ pair production in proton–antiproton collisions.
Read article 'Workshop focuses on top-quark physics'
More than 80 physicists from all over the world met in January in the ancient Portuguese town of Coimbra to take part in the International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, TOP2006.
Read article 'Highly ionized uranium produces best test of theory'
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have made the most precise test so far of quantum electrodynamics (QED).
Read article 'Silver isotope exhibits exotic radioactivity'
Since soon after its discovery by Henri Becquerel in 1896, radioactivity has been known to involve the emission of helium nuclei (alphas), electrons (betas) and photons (gammas).
Read article 'Particles in Portugal: new high-energy physics results'
Europe's premier particle-physics conference took place in 2005 on the banks of the River Tagus, near Lisbon. Per Osland and Jorma Tuominiemi report.
Read article 'Experiments finally unveil a precise portrait of the Z'
After six years of preparation, a 300 page article combining thousands of measurements from five different experiments presents a precision study of the properties of the Z boson.
Read article 'Uppsala 2005: leptons, photons and a lot more'
The biennial Lepton-Photon conference was held in Uppsala on 30 June - 5 July. The talks erected the impressive edifice known as the Standard Model and showed that experimental ingenuity has not yet s...
Read article 'Symposium previews the future of hadron colliders'
The HCP2005 Symposium, held in the Swiss Alps, discussed the latest results from the Tevatron and the prospect that the LHC will open new scientific frontiers.
Read article 'Variation in weak force found by E158'
The E158 experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has made a landmark observation: the strength of the weak force acting on two electrons lessens when the electrons are far apart.
Read article 'Analysis method measures angle γ'
Up to a few years ago, no significant measurement of the angle γ in the unitarity triangle of B-meson physics was expected to come out of the current B-factories.
