Read article 'Listening for the music of gravity'
Listening for the music of gravity
The latest generation of high-precision experiments is bringing observers one step closer to detecting the elusive song of gravity waves.
Read article 'Listening for the music of gravity'
Read article 'Glimpses of superhistory'
Glimpses of superhistory
Nearly 30 years after its discovery, supersymmetry remains the prime candidate to cure all of the ills of our understanding of elementary particle behaviour. Putting aside the question of experimenta...
Read article 'Strength in numbers: particle physics goes global'
Strength in numbers: particle physics goes global
Particle physics has been "big science" for a long time. Its ambitious projects are also becoming more and more international, for it is only this way that the necessary resources can be amassed. A r...
Read article 'Season of Higgs and melodrama'
Season of Higgs and melodrama
CERN's LEP electron-positron collider closed last year after a tantalizing and controversial finish, which revealed hints of the long-awaited Higgs particle - the missing link in today's picture of p...
Read article 'The road ahead'
The road ahead
In this article, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani explains why CERN's commitment to building the LHC collider overcame all pressures to prolong running the LEP electron-positron machine.
Read article 'Looking at physics in a rarefied atmosphere'
Looking at physics in a rarefied atmosphere
Last year the annual DESY Theory Workshop focused on rare physics - the physics that's hardest to do and sometimes difficult to understand. Andrzej Buras reports.
Read article 'High energies and high altitudes'
High energies and high altitudes
A recent meeting in Bolivia looked at the possibilities of mounting new physics instrumentation at the highest-altitude laboratory in the world. Larry Jones reports.
Read article 'Can carbon nanotubes handle high-energy particles?'
Can carbon nanotubes handle high-energy particles?
New types of materials suggest new ways of handling high-energy particle beams, but can carbon nanotubes handle high-energy particles? Specialists from Yerevan outline the possibilities.
Read article 'Pulling the trigger on LHC electronics'
Pulling the trigger on LHC electronics
The conditions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider pose severe challenges for the designers and builders of front-end, trigger and data acquisition electronics. A recent workshop reviewed the encouraging...
Read article 'Mapping chaos in particle revolutions'
Mapping chaos in particle revolutions
Over the past decade the technique of frequency map analysis, developed to study astronomical systems, has shown its value in an increasing number of areas, including the analysis of particle orbits ...
