Particle physics: Smashing spectacle

Particle physics.

Particle physics.

The various groups of the Physik-Institut in the elds of particle physics are using for their experiments external accelerators at the large international research institutions PSI (Villigen), CERN (Genf), DESY (Hamburg) and Brookhaven. Further activities in the eld of particle physics which are connected to questions of astropar-ticlephysics and cosmology do not require accelerators or they ar...

Review of Particle Physics.

This biennial Review summarizes much of particle physics. Using data from previous editions, plus 2158 new measurements from 551 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We also summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as Higgs bosons, heavy neutrinos, and supersymmetric particles. All the particle properties and...

Particle Physics from Stars

Low-mass particles such as neutrinos, axions, other Nambu-Goldstone bosons and gravitons are produced in the hot and dense interior of stars. Therefore, astrophysical arguments constrain the properties of these particles in ways which are often complementary to cosmological arguments and to laboratory experiments. This review provides an update on the most important stellar-evolution limits and...

Anniversaries for particle physics.

his month and next month mark two important anniversaries in the field of particle physics— the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of Fermilab (the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, just outside of Chicago, Illinois) and the 5th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland). These two institutions have been unite...