Read article 'LEP reaps a final harvest'
LEP reaps a final harvest
CERN's LEP electron-positron collider stubbornly refused to lie down quietly in 2000.
Read article 'LEP reaps a final harvest'
Read article 'Long haul journey gets ‘under’ way'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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.
