Read article 'The full Monte-Carlo'
Monte-Carlo methods are vital simulation tools for studying high-energy particle collisions. To push the development of the Monte-Carlo generators, their underlying models and technical solutions, D...
Read article 'Neutrinos stop going West'
Neutrinos have been a mainstay of CERN's research until September, when a generation of studies at the SPS synchrotron came to an end.
Read article 'Particles for export'
With CERN's site straddling the FrancoSwiss frontier near Geneva, exporting particle beams is an everyday occurrence. Now a new proposal foresees CERN particles also being exported to Italy, for u...
Read article 'MACRO-scope'
The Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory (MACRO) is an underground muon detector at Gran Sasso, which is now adding to the evidence for neutrino oscillations.
Read article 'Neutrino oscillations NOW'
Neutrinos are never far from the physics headlines. Neutrino oscillations when different types of neutrinos transform among themselves has emerged as the big talking point of 1998. A topical...
Read article 'Applied superconductivity in Russia'
A school on applied superconductivity held near the Russian proton accelerator at the Protvino Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), near Moscow, provided a valuable snapshot of this important...
Read article 'Twenty-five years of neutral currents'
In the summer of 1973, an experiment at the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN discovered a new physics effect. Gordon Fraser looks back at how confirmation of the existence of neutral currents ushere...
Read article '25 years of asymptotic freedom'
A quarter of a century ago, several theorists published an unexpected result which opened the door to quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the unusual field theory that describes quarks and gluons. This ye...
Read article 'The prospects for particle physics'
The second of two articles, in which as his five-year mandate as Director-General of CERN nears its end, Chris Llewellyn Smith reflects on what particle physics has achieved, and where it may be go...
Read article 'Making a song and dance about physics'
Who needs the Spice Girls? What physicists want (what they really, really want) is science entertainment from Les Horribles Cernettes and the physics chanteuse Lynda Williams.
