Detectors Archives – Page 25 of 50

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope sees first light

New window opens on high-energy universe

TOTEM and LHCf: Roman pots for the LHC (archive)

Articles from the archive talking about the Roman pot detectors and the detectors used in the LHCf.

TOTEM goes the distance (archive)

Articles from the archive about TOTEM and LHCf detectors.

LHCb: A beauty of an experiment (archive)

Article from the archive about the born of the LHCb collaboration and the detector to study the beauty quarks.

ALICE: The heavy-ion challenge

When the ideas for ALICE were first formed at the end of 1990, the heavy-ion programme was still in its infancy and very little was known about what physics to expect or what kind of detector would be...

ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)

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

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.