Read article 'CMS collaboration takes on a cosmic challenge'
During two periods in summer and autumn 2006, the CMS collaboration took advantage of the near-complete assembly of the detector above ground to test its performance with cosmic rays, from support sys...
Read article 'PSI pixels spin off into research with X-rays'
The countdown to the LHC start-up has begun, but even before the first protons have collided, pixel detectors designed for the CMS experiment are being used in other areas.
Read article 'GEM structure makes self-portrait'
In 1996 Fabio Sauli at CERN introduced the gas electron multiplier (GEM) – a new idea for gas amplification in particle detection.
Read article 'Uppsala brings neutrino telescopes back to Earth'
Physicists met in Uppsala to consider how the next generation of high-energy neutrino detectors can contribute to new physics as well as to study cosmic phenomena.
Read article 'ALICE forges ahead with detector installation'
When it starts up the ALICE experiment will observe collisions of heavy ions in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where "fireballs" of extremely hot and dense matter will be fleetingly made.
Read article 'LHCf: a tiny new experiment joins the LHC'
While most of the LHC experiments are on a grand scale, LHC forward (LHCf) is quite different.
Read article 'ATLAS installs first of the big wheels'
September saw the completion in the underground cavern of the first of the big wheels for the ATLAS muon spectrometer.
Read article 'OPERA experiment detects first neutrinos in beam from CERN'
For the first time, on 18 August, the OPERA detector in the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy recorded the interactions of neutrinos sent from CERN, 732 km away.
Read article 'CMS magnet reaches full field after eight years of construction'
The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet, built for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), reached full field on 28 August.
Read article 'Two inner detectors move into place at the heart of ATLAS'
After years of design, construction and commissioning, the two outer detectors – the transition radiation tracker (TRT) and the semiconductor tracker (SCT) – of the inner detector barrel were move...
