Read article 'Astrowatch'
Astrowatch
Millennium ‘delayed’ by space mission to Saturn Hold the champagne! Millennium celebrations throughout the world will be delayed. The culprit is the Cassini-Huygens space mission, which fl...
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Read article 'First K2K events seen at KEK lab'
First K2K events seen at KEK lab
This is the first step towards the verification of the neutrino oscillation results given by the Super-Kamiokande last year.
Read article 'MINOS to explore neutrino mass'
MINOS to explore neutrino mass
Deep in a former Minnesota iron mine, scientists and government officials recently wielded pickaxes to chip away, at least symbolically, at the mysteries surrounding the subatomic particles known as n...
Read article 'Lepton-photon symposium at Stanford'
Lepton-photon symposium at Stanford
The major international focus of high-energy physics in odd-numbered years is the International Symposium on LeptonPhoton Interactions at High Energies, which took place this year on 9-14 August at ...
Read article 'First beams of nuclei circulate rings at Brookhaven’s RHIC'
First beams of nuclei circulate rings at Brookhaven’s RHIC
During August, work continued to establish circulating beams of nuclei in the two rings of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Read article 'KEK: initial B for BELLE'
KEK: initial B for BELLE
On 1 June, after five years of planning and five years of construction, the BELLE detector recorded its first B meson events at the KEKB electronpositron B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan. During this fir...
Read article 'NA48 measures direct CP violation'
NA48 measures direct CP violation
With a first result announced from a major experiment at CERN, 1999 looks like being a vintage year for the measurement of CP violation the effect that enables nature to differentiate between matte...
Read article 'Jefferson free-electron laser exceeds kilowatt'
Jefferson free-electron laser exceeds kilowatt
On 15 July in Newport News, Virginia, Jefferson Lab's free-electron laser produced infrared light at a wavelength of 3.1µm and 1.72 kW average power, thereby exceeding the kilowatt design goal.
Read article 'LEP achieves its first century'
LEP achieves its first century
On 2 August, a decade after the initial commissioning at 45 GeV per beam, CERN's LEP storage ring has collided 100 GeV beams of electrons and positrons, giving a total energy of 200 GeV.
Read article 'RHIC gold particles complete lap of ring'
RHIC gold particles complete lap of ring
On 16 July, a beam of gold nuclei circulated one of the two rings of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider for the first time.
