Read article 'Isotope source reaches full energy'
Isotope source reaches full energy
The new Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC-I) at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory in Vancouver has
reached its maximum energy on schedule.
Read article 'Isotope source reaches full energy'
Read article 'Season of Higgs and melodrama'
Season of Higgs and melodrama
CERN's LEP electron-positron collider closed last year after a tantalizing and controversial finish, which revealed hints of the long-awaited Higgs particle - the missing link in today's picture of p...
Read article 'The road ahead'
The road ahead
In this article, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani explains why CERN's commitment to building the LHC collider overcame all pressures to prolong running the LEP electron-positron machine.
Read article 'The final curtain falls on LEP'
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.
Read article 'Pulling the trigger on LHC electronics'
Pulling the trigger on LHC electronics
The conditions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider pose severe challenges for the designers and builders of front-end, trigger and data acquisition electronics. A recent workshop reviewed the encouraging...
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 '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...
