CERN Courier – January/February 2006
News
LHC's installation makes progress
Open-access moves ahead for physics
Super-Kamiokande gets full refit
Belle achieves new luminosity record
Superconducting RF technology forum unites research and industry
HERA hits record annual luminosity
Auger observatory celebrates progress
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Sciencewatch
The magnetic mystery
Photonic crystals make male beetle shine
Skunk cabbage generates plenty of heat
Photon pairs get hyperentangled
Bacteria slow light
Features
Quarks matter in Budapest
Quark Matter 2005, the 18th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus- Nucleus Collisions, provided a lively forum for new results in heavy-ion physics.
Particles in Portugal: new high-energy physics results
Europe's premier particle-physics conference took place in 2005 on the banks of the River Tagus, near Lisbon. Per Osland and Jorma Tuominiemi report.
CERN's low-energy frontier
The recent NuPAC meeting at CERN provided an overview of the laboratory's present and future activities in nuclear astrophysics, nuclear-structure physics and related areas.
PHYSTAT: making the most of statistical techniques
Roger Barlow looks at the development of the PHYSTAT series of meetings, which bring statisticians together with astronomers, cosmologists and particle physicists.
The future looks bright for particle channelling
Techniques that make use of the ordered structure of a crystal lattice to manipulate particle beams are finding an increasing number of applications.
Tokyo meeting focuses on nucleon-spin problem
Quark spin, gluon spin and the orbital angular momenta of quarks and gluons can all contribute to nucleon spin, but which has the main role? Physicists met in Tokyo to discuss.
Computing News and Features
ETICS assures quality on the Grid
Grid researchers get one online identity
Python developers swap ideas
SC|05 showcases high-energy computing
CNL is 40 years old
Meeting highlights Grid potential
Middleware has two important additions
W3C improves features for transforming and querying XML
Calendar of events
Les gros titres de l'actualité informatique
Tackling the challenge of lattice QCD
Don Holmgren describes Pion, Fermilab's new commodity solution for lattice quantum chromodynamics computing, which went online at the end of last year.
Towards a read-write Web
Security efforts led by the LCG and EGEE projects are uniting the Web and the Grid, and helping to fulfil the vision of a worldwide collaborative Web, says Andrew McNab.
Globus Toolkit upgrade aids the Grid community
Ian Foster reports on the latest release of the Globus open-source software toolkit.