Read article 'Researchers observe two-proton radioactivity'
Teams from France, Germany and Poland have recently observed two-proton radioactive decay from iron-45 nuclei. Bertram Blank explains how this opens up exciting new research avenues in nuclear physics...
Read article 'High-energy conference highlights precision results'
This year's Rochester International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Amsterdam, provided a showcase for precision results, and pointed the way forward for particle physics at future faciliti...
Read article 'Quark matter conference highlights RHIC results'
Following the 2000 announcement by the CERN heavy-ion community of evidence for a new state of unbound quark-gluon matter, heavy-ion physicists have been eagerly awaiting results from Brookhaven's RHI...
Read article 'Workshops focus on photon-hadron collisions'
As well as taking proton-proton and heavy-ion physics into a new energy regime, CERN's LHC will produce the world's highest-energy photon-hadron interactions, providing a powerful fundamental physics ...
Read article 'PASI studies new states of matter'
For nearly two decades nuclear and particle physicists have been searching for experimental evidence of a new state of deconfined hot quark-gluon matter. A recent study institute in Brazil took stock ...
Read article 'Nucleon insights: echoes from QCD-N’02'
A recent workshop on the nucleon has pinpointed near to mid-term goals for QCD hadron structure physics. Nicola Bianchi and Rainer Jakob report.
Read article 'Heavy ions offer a new approach to fusion'
Three US laboratories have teamed up to form the Heavy-Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory to investigate a novel approach to fusion energy. Christine Celata profiles the highly tangible programme ...
Read article 'Radioactive beam research notches up 50 years'
Research using accelerated beams of short-lived nuclei has grown into a major activity. Karsten Riisager reports from a recent symposium in Copenhagen that looked at the status and future prospects of...
Read article 'Snake charming induces spin-flip'
The team, which includes physicists from Michigan and Indiana in the US, IHEP-Protvino in Russia and KEK in Japan, has charmed a string of magnets known as a Siberian snake to spin-flip stored protons...
Read article 'Mad about physics in Antananarivo'
The Malagasy capital of Antananarivo welcomed HEP-MAD '01, Madagascar's first conference on high-energy physics, at the end of September last year
