The final curtain falls on LEP
After a concerted push by physicists to extend the running of CERN's LEP 27 km electron-positron collider into 2001, the decision has been taken to close the machine for good.
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After a concerted push by physicists to extend the running of CERN's LEP 27 km electron-positron collider into 2001, the decision has been taken to close the machine for good.
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CERN's LEP electron-positron collider stubbornly refused to lie down quietly in 2000.
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The PEP-II B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) completed its first experimental run at the end of October after achieving record collision rates and producing more than 23 mi...
Soon after commissioning with high-energy beams of heavy nuclei, Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider tested the second string to its bow when it underwent its first two-week test of transfe...
As the era of CERN's LEP electron-positron collider draws to a close, that of CERN's next major machine - the LHC proton collider - is set to begin. A special celebration event at CERN marked this m...
With possible signs of the elusive Higgs particle on the horizon, on 14 September CERN decided to
extend the life of its flagship LEP electron-positron collider until 2 November 2000.
At Beijing, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) was commissioned in 1988 and physicists are now considering the next step.
On 11 September, French Minister of Research and Technology Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg announced the decision to build the SOLEIL third-generation synchrotron radiation source near Paris.