Read article '200 GeV achieved for 2000'
In the last 10 years electroweak, physics has been transformed from a subtle effect into big science. At the forefront of this effort has been CERN's LEP electronpositron collider, which is now cele...
Read article 'A good BaBar gain'
The BaBar experiment represents “a new mode of US experimentation”, said Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) director Burt Richter at the experiment’s formal dedication on 13 A...
Read article 'Physicists focus on quest for Bs'
The physics of B particles is a major new focus of world particle physics research. A session at the recent lepton-photon symposium provided a useful overview.
Read article 'Cyclotrons and their Applications 1998 – Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications, Caen, France, 14-19 June 1998'
Cyclotrons 1998 was the fifteenth in a series of international conferences initiated in 1959. Cyclotrons are used in basic and applied research, radiotherapy and nuclear medicine. Included is a comple...
Read article 'First beams of nuclei circulate rings at Brookhaven’s RHIC'
During August, work continued to establish circulating beams of nuclei in the two rings of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Read article 'LEP achieves its first century'
On 2 August, a decade after the initial commissioning at 45 GeV per beam, CERN's LEP storage ring has collided 100 GeV beams of electrons and positrons, giving a total energy of 200 GeV.
Read article 'RHIC gold particles complete lap of ring'
On 16 July, a beam of gold nuclei circulated one of the two rings of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider for the first time.
Read article 'Electrons and nuclei meet at HERA'
The HERA collider at DESY, Hamburg, has been operating with proton and electron (or positron) beams since it was commissioned in 1991.
Read article 'From Russia with load'
Arriving at CERN from Novosibirsk's Budker Institute are magnets for the two transfer lines to feed the LHC collider with protons from the SPS proton synchrotron.
Read article 'Muon ring could act as a neutrino factory'
Neutrinos have always been in the particle physics spotlight. However, with new machine ideas opening up the possibility of intense neutrino sources, this area of research could go on to reveal furthe...
