Read article 'CERN confirms LHC start-up in 2007'
On 20 June, in its 125th session, the CERN Council received confirmation that the LHC and its detectors are on schedule for start-up in 2007, and that the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project is about to ...
Read article 'KEKB scales peak in luminosity'
This accomplishment will boost KEK's programme of investigating CP violation and searching for beyond-the-Standard-Model effects in the Bbar-B system.
Read article 'Brilliant future for PETRA III'
DESY is to convert its storage ring PETRA into one of the most modern third-generation X-ray sources in the world.
Read article 'A new life for Indiana’s cyclotron'
The Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) was originally built as a laboratory for medium-energy nuclear physics, and began operations in 1975. By the 1990s the research programme had begun to ...
Read article 'The ring on the parking lot'
Thirty years ago, a handful of tenacious physicists put up a $5 million storage ring on a parking lot at SLAC. Shawna Williams reflects on its glorious past and its promising future.
Read article 'Wigglers give CESR a new charmed life'
In early March, after more than 23 years of continuous operation, the CESR staff and the CLEO collaboration at Cornell completed their programme of b quark physics.
Read article 'HERA II puts collisions in a spin'
This is a first not only for DESY, the laboratory that is home to HERA, but also for the world.
Read article 'China agrees upgrade of its particle collider'
On 10 February, the Chinese government approved the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider Upgrading Program (BEPCII), finally making the long expectation of the Chinese high-energy physics community a re...
Read article 'DAFNE goes hypernuclear'
A new experiment at the Frascati laboratory's φ-factory is set to investigate the strange world of the hypernucleus.
Read article 'Induction acceleration looks to the future'
It was a milestone event in the history of induction accelerators when more than 55 experts assembled at KEK in October 2002 for an international workshop on Recent Progress in Induction Accelerators ...
