Read article 'CMS cavern ready for its detector'
On 1 February 2005, the cavern for the CMS detector at CERN was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by many guests, including the Spanish and Italian ambassadors to the United Nations and representativ...
Read article 'Balloon experiment searches for antiparticles above the Antarctic'
The Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer (BESS) launched a cosmic-ray spectrometer from Antarctica on 13 December.
Read article 'CAST sheds some light on axions'
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) collaboration has released the first results from its search for the solar axion, a viable candidate for a dark-matter particle.
Read article 'The heart of ATLAS takes shape'
Particle physicists in the UK have completed the first critical element of the largest semiconductor tracker ever built, the ATLAS SCT, which is to form the innermost core of the giant detector that w...
Read article 'Indian chips on track for ALICE'
As an observer state of CERN, India is collaborating in many aspects of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project - building components of the accelerator as well as constructing detectors for various e...
Read article 'Muon chambers are on course for ATLAS'
On 5 October, technicians at NIKHEF, the Dutch National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics, glued the last layer of aluminium drift tubes on the 101st and final ATLAS precision muon...
Read article 'Calling long distance: Geneva to Italy'
The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) project is set to deliver its first neutrinos in spring 2006. A key element is the vast decay tube.
Read article 'The NSS/MIC conference: a global meeting place'
The IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference provides a unique - and increasingly popular - annual event for scientists and engineers to come together to review progress in detect...
Read article 'ATLAS muon chambers leave Russia for CERN'
On 6 July the vehicle with the first nine of 84 muon chambers made at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (JINR DLNP) for the ATLAS experiment left Building 5 of DLNP and set out on its long ...
Read article 'Indian detector stars at Brookhaven'
A detector built by an Indian team has begun running this year in the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
