Read article 'CERN workshop marks a transition'
In 1963, Nicola Cabibbo proposed a mechanism to describe transformations between up, down and strange quarks. Almost a decade later, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa generalized quark mixing to ...
Read article 'How CERN became popular with US physicists'
In last month's issue we traced the history of CERN-US collaboration from its post-war beginnings to the advent of proton collider physics in the 1970s. Here Gordon Fraser continues the story to the p...
Read article 'Probing the boundary of nuclear-particle physics'
Founded in the 1980s as the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), the US national laboratory on Chesapeake Bay adopted the name of Thomas Jefferson in 1996. America's third president ...
Read article 'How US physicists first came to work at CERN'
After help from an eminent US figure, CERN was founded in the 1950s to provide a European stage for physics. Once the curtain was up, US physicists found the new laboratory increasingly attractive. In...
Read article 'Superluminal phenomena shed new light on time'
Is it possible to travel faster than light? Can we travel back in time, or send signals into the past? These questions have intrigued physicists since the discovery of special relativity nearly a cent...
Read article 'Forty years of research on the structure of matter'
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Michael Riordan takes a look at its achievements and current research.
Read article 'QCD comes to the home of Goethe and Schiller'
Weimar, a German town with strong European traditions, hosted the 4th European QCD network meeting on 12-15 September 2001.
Read article 'Swiss Light Source set to be a world-class facility'
October 2001 saw the inauguration of the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute. As Peter-Raymond Kettle reports, the source gives Switzerland a world-class synchrotron radiation facility.
Read article 'DESY workshop combines gravity and particle physics'
Gravity and particle physics took centre stage at last year's DESY theory workshop. As chairman of the organizing committee Dieter Lüst reports, there was plenty to talk about.
Read article 'Space-time symmetry is put to the test'
Symmetries underpin much of modern physics and, as a consequence, are sensitive probes for new phenomena. Neil Russell reports from a recent meeting held at Indiana University, where physicists discus...
