Read article 'ICARUS starts to fly'
ICARUS starts to fly
The experiment for Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS) was officially inaugurated on 29 March at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory.
Read article 'ICARUS starts to fly'
Read article 'Experiments in Soudan mine seem fine after shaft fire'
Experiments in Soudan mine seem fine after shaft fire
Research teams think that there is little damage, if any, to the two large particle-physics experiments in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, following a fire in the access shaft on 17 March, which shut d...
Read article 'NA63’s enlightening experiments'
NA63’s enlightening experiments
Strong electric fields in crystals provide a laboratory to study QED.
Read article 'A sparkling tale of spin-off'
A sparkling tale of spin-off
How research on diamond detectors led to a hi-tech company in Austria.
Read article 'PAMELA data challenge theory for cosmic-ray acceleration'
PAMELA data challenge theory for cosmic-ray acceleration
The satellite experiment Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) has reported finding differences between the shapes of the energy spectra of protons and heliu...
Read article 'ALICE gets with the flow'
ALICE gets with the flow
With data from the first heavy-ion run at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has made the first observation of elliptic flow of charged particles in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair.
Read article 'The CMS experiment puts physics onto the menu'
The CMS experiment puts physics onto the menu
CMS serves up physics with its trigger menu.
Read article 'CMS studies energy imbalance in jets in heavy-ion collisions'
CMS studies energy imbalance in jets in heavy-ion collisions
The CMS experiment has released results of a new study that sheds more light on the phenomenon known as di-jet energy imbalance.
Read article 'CERN launches AIDA project'
CERN launches AIDA project
The AIDA project (Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators) will develop detector infrastructures for future particle-physics experiments in line with the European Strategy for ...
Read article 'The world’s biggest IceCube is ready for action'
The world’s biggest IceCube is ready for action
Deep in the ice at the South Pole, the IceCube detector is now fully functioning after six years of challenging construction.
