Read article 'Early days: The challenges of the LHC (archive)'
It is generally considered that the starting point for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was an ECFA meeting in Lausanne in March 1984,although many of us had begun work on the design of the machine in ...
Read article 'Early days: The Evian experiment meeting (archive)'
Compilation of two articles from 1992 talking about the construction of the LHC and its four detectors at the Evian experiment meeting.
Read article 'Early days: Lausanne LHC workshop (archive)'
The installation of a hadron collider in the LEP tunnel, using superconducting magnets, has always been foreseen by ECFA and CERN as the natural long term extension of the CERN facilities beyond LEP. ...
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Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam – The First Muslim Nobel Scientist by Gordon Fraser. Oxford University Press. Hardback ISBN 9780199208463 £25 ($49.95). The late Abdus Salam – the only Nobel...
Read article 'Gas detectors advance into a second century'
The latest developments in a technique dating back to Ernest Rutherford.
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Summer bookshelf This year many of the world’s particle physicists will be spending the summer months hard at work on preparations for the LHC’s first collisions. Undoubtedly there will be...
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I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, Basic Books. Hardback ISBN 9780465030781, £15.99 ($26.95). Douglas Hofstadter is a truly exceptional person. His remarkable academic life followed a pat...
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Im Wirbel der Atome: Lise Meitner, Eine Frau geht ihren Weg (In the turmoil of atoms: Lise Meitner, A Woman pursues her Way) by Thea Derado, Kaufmann Verlag 2007. Hardback ISBN 9783780630599, €1...
Read article 'Particle physics proves that arsenic didn’t kill Napoleon'
A meticulous new examination performed at the INFN laboratories in Milano-Bicocca and Pavia in Italy has shown that arsenic poisoning did not kill Napoleon.
Read article 'An Indian dream come true'
India’s accelerator pioneers began to build the Calcutta cyclotron in the early 1970s but soon found that the industrial infrastructure was not geared up to provide the necessary level of technology...
