Read article 'Test stand for RF couplers inaugurated at Orsay'
A new test stand for radio-frequency (RF) couplers is operating at the French Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL, CNRS/IN2P3) in Orsay.
Read article 'Deuteron-gold collisions clarify ‘jet quenching’ results'
New measurements at RHIC provide further insight into heavy-ion collisions at high energies.
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...
