Read article 'In the tracks of the bubble chamber'
Horst Wenninger pieces together many of the aspects that made the bubble-chamber programme an important part of CERN's development as an international laboratory.
Read article 'The beta-decay route to a high-flux neutrino source'
Online isotope separation combined with some imaginative accelerator "gymnastics" could provide a high-intensity neutrino beam at CERN. Steve Hancock describes a possible scenario.
Read article 'The beginning of long-term planning in CERN'
In its early days CERN was budgeting a year at a time, but after a crisis in 1961 it became clear that long-term planning was essential. Mervyn Hine looks back to the introduction of a four-year plann...
Read article 'Joining up the dots with the strong force'
A new variation on an old technique is yielding the most precise results so far in lattice calculations of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, as Christine Davies explains.
Read article 'CANDLE lights up research in Armenia'
As Armenian scientists continue their efforts to promote the creation of the CANDLE facility, a third-generation light source, Vasili Tsakanov explains the importance of the project both to the region...
Read article 'The search for the disappearing neutrinos'
A series of three workshops has considered a new generation of experiments at nuclear reactors, which could help to pin down the neutrino mixing matrix.
Read article 'Theory and experiment peer across the frontier'
The fourth conference in the "Beyond" series presented a clear overview of - and beyond - the current frontiers of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
Read article 'CERN’s giant fridge'
The first stage of the refrigeration system for the Large Hadron Collider is now installed and ready for the initial cooling tests in 2005, as Laurent Tavian describes.
Read article 'There’s plenty of room at the top'
Space is the ultimate laboratory for fundamental physics and the possibility of holding experiments there was the theme of the SpacePart '03 conference. Roberto Battiston reports.
Read article 'The W and Z at LEP'
The Large Electron Positron collider made significant contributions to the process of establishing the Standard Model as the basis for matter and forces, and also built a platform for physics scenario...
