CERN Courier – September 2008
News
LHC: countdown to beam begins
D0 snares last rare boson pair
BaBar gets right to the bottom
BEPC II celebrates the first collision events
GDE looks at proposed ILC site in Russia
PHIL: a new test facility for LAL
Cryogenic jets defy Rayleigh’s theory
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Neutron-rich nuclei reveal new secrets
Sciencewatch
Frogs utilize ultrasonic skills
Measuring fine structure by eye
Incense proves to calm the nerves
Spins entangle in room-temperature diamond
Is non-Gaussianity set to spell trouble for cosmic inflation?
Features
CLIC here for the future
The Compact Linear Collider study aims for the high-energy frontier.
Mission accomplished: a new hall for PETRA III
Hermann Franz describes some rather special civil engineering.
The rise of the FFAG
FFAG accelerators are beginning to flourish throughout the world.
London welcomes DIS international workshop
A report from the meeting on deep-inelastic scattering and related topics.
Neutrino physicists get together down under
News from Neutrino 2008, held in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Nobel dreams at Lindau
The 2008 meeting of Nobel laureates had more than a touch of CERN.
Nobel expectations for new physics at the LHC
What will the LHC bring? Nobel laureates at Lindau share their thoughts.
Energy options and the role of nuclear fusion
Chris Llewellyn Smith talks to Antonella del Rosso.
Gas detectors advance into a second century
The latest developments in a technique dating back to Ernest Rutherford.