Detectors Archives – Page 25 of 49

CMS: A study in compactness (archive)

A compilation of past articles about the CMS experiment, its design and its goals.

ATLAS: The making of a giant

A multipurpose detector, its physics goals range from the search for the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles to the exploration of extra dimensions and other alternative scenarios.

ATLAS: A titan fit for the LHC (archive)

Archives from ATLAS construction.

Gas detectors advance into a second century

The latest developments in a technique dating back to Ernest Rutherford.

Pixels make for perfect particle tracking in ALICE

The silicon pixel detector in ALICE has an important role to play in demanding conditions at the LHC

…and time flies for the ALICE detector

During the last week of April, the ALICE experiment’s time-of-flight (TOF) detector was completed and installed in the experimental cavern.

CMS completes milestone installation of beam pipe…

On 10 June the CMS collaboration reached another major milestone when the heart of the detector, the beam pipe, was fully installed after 15 years of complex design and manufacture.