Beyond the Z: the latest generation of high-powered particle accelerators has produced no real surprises. What's next?

From: Science News | Date: September 29, 1990| Author: Peterson, Ivars | Copyright information

Beyond the Z

All seems quiet on the collider front. The first results from a new generation of powerful particle accelerators yield no startling discoveries or glimpses of novel phenomena. For the moment, the quest for the elementary particles of matter has settled into a comfortable routine of steadily accumulating large quantities of valuable but unsurprising data.

So far, those data agree extremely well with expectations based on theoretical calculations a...

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