Detectors Archives – Page 35 of 50

First neutrinos head for MINOS

The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment was officially inaugurated in a ceremony at Fermilab on 4 March.

WASA finds a new home at COSY

The Wide Angle Shower Apparatus (WASA) detector, currently at the CELSIUS facility of The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) in Uppsala, Sweden, is to find a new home.

STAR has silicon at its core

A silicon strip detector is providing more power for particle detection in Brookhaven National Laboratory's STAR experiment.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...