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...
Read article 'LHCb installs bridge and beampipe section…'
The last large component of the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has descended into the cavern on the LHC ring, and the delicate installation of the important beryllium vacuum chambers h...
Read article '…while ALICE installs the first detectors'
In mid-July, the ALICE Collaboration reached important milestones with the installation of the trigger and tracking chambers of the muon spectrometer.
Read article 'ATLAS superconducting solenoid succeeds in full commissioning'
The ATLAS Collaboration passed a major milestone during the evening of 1 August.
Read article 'CMS gets ready for its descent underground'
July saw some major manoeuvres for the CMS detector, as the collaboration prepares to lower it into its final position on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
