Read article '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'
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'
On 16 March, operation of the K Long Experiment (KLOE) detector ended after 23 months of continuous running at the DAFNE collider at Frascati.
Read article 'CMS tracker sees first cosmic muons'
The tracker for the CMS experiment at CERN passed an important milestone in March when the first cosmic-muon tracks were observed in one of the end caps.
Read article 'The world’s biggest neutrino detector gets ready for physics'
After a successful construction season over the Austral summer at the South Pole, the IceCube detector array is now preparing to tackle real physics. Spencer Klein reports.
Read article 'ATLAS tracker takes major strides'
At the heart of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), silicon sensors will provide accurate detection of charged particles produced in the collisions.
Read article 'The HERMES gas target: 10 years on'
Erhard Steffens describes the various phases in a successful decade of operation of the HERMES gas target, which may live on with future use for antiproton polarization.
Read article 'CMS drift-tube chambers pass cosmic test'
The CMS collaboration has for the first time operated a whole sector of drift-tube chambers (DTCs) and detected cosmic muons
Read article 'Super-Kamiokande gets full refit'
Operation of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) II detector in Japan was terminated last October after three years of running to begin a full restoration of the detector.
Read article 'Silicon trackers begin to take shape for CMS and ATLAS'
Over the past few months the silicon microstrip tracker of the CMS experiment has been making steady, and rapid, progress towards meeting its next major target - installation of the complete detector ...
