Read article 'PAMELA looks for dark matter and antimatter'
PAMELA looks for dark matter and antimatter
PAMELA will stay in space for at least three years, on a 70° elliptic orbit at an altitude of 300–600 km.
Read article 'PAMELA looks for dark matter and antimatter'
Read article 'ANTARES Collaboration detects its first muons'
ANTARES Collaboration detects its first muons
After many years of tests, the ANTARES neutrino detector deployed in the Mediterranean Sea is using its first full detector line to register the tracks of cosmic-ray muons.
Read article 'MAGIC discovers variable very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from a microquasar'
MAGIC discovers variable very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from a microquasar
The MAGIC telescope has discovered variable very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from a microquasar.
Read article 'ALICE experiment sees first cosmic-ray events'
ALICE experiment sees first cosmic-ray events
On 16 June the time projection chamber (TPC) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started to record its first real events, reconstructing the tracks of cosmic rays.
Read article 'CMS closes up for magnet test and cosmic challenge'
CMS closes up for magnet test and cosmic challenge
Members of the CMS collaboration have spent much of this year preparing for crucial tests before starting to lower the gigantic detector into the underground cavern in the autumn.
Read article 'Pisa pushes new frontiers'
Pisa pushes new frontiers
The island of Elba, off the coast of Tuscany, hosted the 10th Pisa meeting on frontier detectors, a quarter of a century since the meetings began. Giorgio Chiarelli reports.
Read article 'CDF measures matter-antimatter B0s transition'
CDF measures matter-antimatter B0s transition
The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has announced the precision measurement of the matter-antimatter transitions for the B0s meson, which consists of a bottom quark bound to a strange anti-quark.
Read article 'Micro-pattern technology gets set for more challenges'
Micro-pattern technology gets set for more challenges
A recent meeting at CERN reviewed the progress in the development of micro-pattern gas detectors for current and future particle-physics experiments.
Read article 'D0 provides precise results on B0s oscillations'
D0 provides precise results on B0s oscillations
The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has published the first direct two-sided bound on the oscillation frequency of the B0s, the meson comprising a strange quark (s) and a bottom antiquark (Bbar).
Read article 'KLOE completes a successful run at the DAFNE collider'
KLOE completes a successful run at the DAFNE collider
On 16 March, operation of the K Long Experiment (KLOE) detector ended after 23 months of continuous running at the DAFNE collider at Frascati.
