Read article 'ITEP gives scintillation counters new START'
Scintillation counters, with their simplicity and fast response, have been the quintessential tool for triggering in particle physics since they were first coupled with photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) so...
Read article 'KamLAND detects geoneutrinos'
The Kamioka liquid-scintillator antineutrino detector (KamLAND) has made the first observation of "geoneutrinos".
Read article 'ATLAS calorimeter records cosmic-ray events underground'
On the evening of 21 June, the ATLAS detector, now being installed in the underground experimental hall UX15 at CERN, reached an important psychological milestone: the first cosmic-ray events were rec...
Read article 'Thinking big: the next generation of detectors'
The conference on the Next Generation of Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors looked at the development of new, large-scale detectors. Alain de Bellefon reports.
Read article 'Telescope takes next step to high-energy frontier'
In April, while Lake Baikal in Siberia was iced over, the neutrino telescope 1.1 km below the surface was successfully upgraded with three additional strings. Renamed NT200+ it is tailored to search ...
Read article 'ClearPET offers improved insight into animal brains'
An efficient new PET scanner for the small animal brain, developed by the Crystal Clear collaboration, is now in production.
Read article 'CMS VPT production reaches 10,000 mark'
The CMS experiment, under construction for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, recently took delivery of its 10,000th vacuum phototriode (VPT), to be used in the Electromagnetic Endcap Calorimete...
Read article 'PET and CT: a perfect fit'
In the June 2005 issue of CERN Courier (the last to be published jointly in French and English), David Townsend – who began his pioneering work in PET imaging 30 years earlier while a staff member a...
Read article 'RHIC groups serve up ‘perfect’ liquid'
The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have announced results indicating that they have observed a state of ho...
Read article 'The ice cube at the end of the world'
What do you get when you take 1 Gt of water, cool it to -40 °C and add 4800 phototubes? The answer is IceCube, a neutrino telescope now being deployed at the South Pole.
