Read article 'LHCb measures its first cosmic-ray muons…'
The LHCb team has for the first time measured cosmic rays passing through three of the experiment’s subdetectors simultaneously, selected by muon triggers.
Read article 'Trieste workshop puts a RICH variety on show'
Ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters provide a unique tool to identify charged particles by measuring their velocity, even when it differs from the velocity of light by only one part in 10 million....
Read article 'UA1 magnet sets off for a second new life'
A magnet built originally for the UA1 detector at CERN and later used by the NOMAD experiment has set sail for a new life in Japan.
Read article '…while LHCb gets data collection on track'
On 8 February, the LHCb collaboration succeeded in extracting data from an almost-complete set of detectors.
Read article 'ATLAS puts last piece in puzzle…'
The ATLAS collaboration celebrated lowering the final large piece of the detector into the underground cavern on 29 February.
Read article 'ALICE and CMS line up the final big pieces underground'
With the completion of two major installation projects, nearly all the infrastructure for the ALICE experiment is now in place in the cavern at Point 2 on the LHC ring, near St. Genis-Pouilly in Fra...
Read article 'CMS starts underground'
In July 2006, the huge segments of the CMS detector came together for the first time for the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge at the experiment's site near Cessy in France.
Read article 'CMS installs the world’s largest silicon detector'
With more than 200 square meters of silicon sensors, the tracking system for CMS is a world-beater.
Read article 'Construction of IceCube project at the South Pole reaches the halfway point'
The teams installing the IceCube experiment at the South Pole have completed a highly successful austral summer season, during which they installed 18 detector strings – 4 more than in the baselin...
Read article 'Vertex 2007 prepares for the radiation challenge'
A workshop at Lake Placid focused on developments in vertex detectors.
