Read article 'Long haul journey gets ‘under’ way'
On 20 October, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani bravely took over the controls of an excavator for the groundbreaking of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project.
Read article 'SLAC B-factory exceeds design luminosity'
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...
Read article 'RHIC handles its first polarized protons'
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...
Read article 'LEPilogue: marking the end of an era'
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...
Read article 'LEP gets a stay of Higgs execution'
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.
Read article 'Future plans take shape in Beijing'
At Beijing, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) was commissioned in 1988 and physicists are now considering the next step.
Read article 'SOLEIL is set to rise'
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.
Read article 'ALICE through the phase transition'
While proton-proton collisions will be the principal diet of CERN's LHC machine, heavy-ion collisions will also be on the menu. The ALICE experiment will be ready and waiting.
Read article 'Focusing an antimatter beam with matter'
An experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has recently focused positron beams by means of a plasma lens. This is the first time this process has been observed.
Read article 'More collisions ahead for HERA'
The unique HERA electron-proton collider at DESY, Hamburg, achieved record performance in 2000 before being shut down for nine months of "lumi upgrade".
