Detectors Archives – Page 18 of 49

LHCb looks forward to electroweak physics

More than just the physics of beauty.

EXPLORER’s life comes to a fruitful end

After 20 years of continuous operation, the EXPLORER gravitational-wave detector has come to the end of its long life as an experiment and left CERN.

Micropattern detector conference goes east

MPGD2011 reviewed the latest developments.

LHCb looks to the future

Even though the physics harvest is now in full flow, the collaboration is already planning for the eventual upgrade of the experiment, which is scheduled to be ready for data-taking in 2019.

NA61/SHINE: more precision for neutrino beams

A CERN experiment brings together heavy-ion and neutrino experts.

OPERA reports time-of-flight anomaly

The OPERA experiment in Italy’s INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory has sent ripples round the world with its findings that neutrinos created 730 km away at CERN arrive at the detector slightly earlier than...

Gravitational waves: European detectors keep up the pace

For several years the European gravitational-wave detectors GEO600 (a collaboration between Germany and the UK), close to Hanover, and Virgo (a collaboration between Italy, France, the Netherlands, Po...