Read article 'Workshop looks through the lattice'
Faced with the difficulty of doing exact calculations, theorists are turning to approximation techniques to understand and predict what happens at the quark level.
Read article 'B-factories measure an eternal triangle'
New results from the "B factories" could help to explain why a universe made of matter emerged from a Big Bang that created equal amounts of matter and antimatter.
Read article 'B physics is surveyed in Cracow'
A recent meeting in Cracow gave an overview of developments in B physics.
Read article 'Computing technology sits in the driving seat'
Advances in physics go hand in hand with those in experimental techniques, and increasingly so with progress in computing and analysis. A recent workshop at Fermilab surveyed this fast-developing ar...
Read article 'Antennas tune in to high-energy particles'
After 40 years of research, physicists met at the First International Workshop on the Radio Detection of High Energy Particles to discuss the detection of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos using...
Read article 'Physics aids new medical techniques'
Since the discovery of X-rays, fundamental physics has been a source of ideas for radiography and medical imaging. A new imaging method firmly rooted in particle physics was chosen by Time magazine ...
Read article 'Spectrometry provides precision for the masses'
Extremely accurate experiments can be conducted when particles and nuclei are delicately guided using electric and magnetic fields. A recent conference surveyed the range of such research under way ...
Read article 'Nuclear masses hang in the balance'
A CERN-inspired development at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Stockholm, has produced physics results of impressive accuracy. Ingmar Bergström reports.
Read article 'CERN experience benefits students and specialists'
CERN has shown how international collaboration in science works. Different national attitudes complement and reinforce each other, but this needs to be experienced first.
Read article 'Micropattern detectors promise a big future'
As well as being important in particle physics, multiwire detectors have been applied in other fields: X-rays for medical imaging, ultraviolet and single-photon detection, neutron and crystal diffrac...
