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.
Read article 'A marriage of pixels and proportional counters'
Different technologies come together in the gas pixel detector, a device that for the first time brings very high resolving power to gas detectors, as Ronaldo Bellazzini explains.
Read article 'In the tracks of the bubble chamber'
Horst Wenninger pieces together many of the aspects that made the bubble-chamber programme an important part of CERN's development as an international laboratory.
Read article 'The search for the disappearing neutrinos'
A series of three workshops has considered a new generation of experiments at nuclear reactors, which could help to pin down the neutrino mixing matrix.
Read article 'There’s plenty of room at the top'
Space is the ultimate laboratory for fundamental physics and the possibility of holding experiments there was the theme of the SpacePart '03 conference. Roberto Battiston reports.
