Read article: Neutrino messages from across the Universe
Neutrino messages from across the Universe
A 'neutrino telescope' should give us the clearest picture yet of events in deep space
Read article: Neutrino messages from across the Universe
B factories go into overdrive
Experiments on B mesons yield puzzling early results
Read article: Muon result could jeopardise Standard Model
Muon result could jeopardise Standard Model
New experiments on the muon cast doubt on a long-held theory
Photonics and particles win 2001 King Faisal prize
Optical communications and cosmology are recognised by the prize
Louis Néel and Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh
Louis Néel was born in Lyons in 1904 and dedicated his career to the study of magnetism. In 1932 he discovered antiferromagnetism – a form of magnetism in which the ‘spins’ on n...
Read article: End of the line for LEP
End of the line for LEP
Hints that the elusive Higgs boson – the holy grail of particle physics – had finally been sighted prompted CERN to extend LEP operation by five weeks. But in a race against time particle ...
Physicists discover new kind of radioactivity
Galindo-Uribarri and co-workers chose an isotope of neon with an energy structure that prevents it from emitting protons one at a time. This means that the two protons are certainly ejected simultaneo...
Read article: CERN chases the Higgs
CERN chases the Higgs
“It was a difficult decision,” admitted Roger Cashmore, CERN’s director of research to Physics Web. “We wanted to give the experiments the opportunity to better test the effect...
Higgs boson on the horizon
Tully and co-workers have combined the data from the four experiments at LEP and found evidence that the Higgs boson has a mass of 114.9 GeV c-2. ‘It is a 2.6 sigma effect,’ he t...
Dirac medal goes to particle theorists
Georgi, Pati and Quinn were honoured for their “pioneering contributions to the quest for a unified theory of quarks and leptons and the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions.” Wor...
