Read article 'RHIC starts producing data'
After achieving first collisions of gold ion beams on the night of 12 June, the gleaming new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven wasted no time in ramping up in energy and i...
Read article 'B-factories give first results: PEP-II at SLAC…'
The PEP-II asymmetric B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) continues to exceed expectations, having nearly reached its design performance after only a year of operations.
Read article '…and Belle at KEKB, Japan'
The Belle experiment at the KEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron B-meson factory recently completed a successful first year of operation.
Read article 'LEP hints at Higgs effect'
After commencing 2000 operations in fine style, CERN's flagship machine, the LEP electron-positron collider, has been regularly delivering experiments with beams of 103 GeV or more.
Read article 'CEBAF reaches 150% of its design energy'
Jefferson Laboratory's CEBAF accelerator, which was originally designed to provide 4 GeV continuous-wave electron beams, has demonstrated 6 GeV continuous-wave operation.
Read article 'KEK laboratory demonstrates fixed-field synchrotron'
The Japanese KEK laboratory has for the first time demonstrated an alternative method of accelerating protons to high energy - the fixed-field, alternating gradient (FFAG) synchrotron.
Read article 'Proton collaboration is under way in Japan'
In Japan the KEK high-energy physics laboratory and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute are working together to finalize preparations for a major new high-intensity proton source, with applic...
Read article 'Energen has a winning plan'
Energen of Billerica, Massachusetts, has been selected as winner of the WPI Venture Forum's 7th Annual Business Plan Contest.
Read article 'Extreme cryogenics keeps LHC cool'
When it comes into operation in 2005, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which will use thousands of superconducting magnets operating at superfluid helium temperatures, will also be the largest cryogeni...
Read article 'First test beams are delivered for the LHC'
The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
