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.
Read article 'FINUDA’s first results open up new window on exotic nuclei'
The first results from the FINUDA experiment at INFN's Frascati National Laboratory show that the detector is performing well and is in good shape for its future studies of hypernuclear physics.
Read article 'First module for the CMS solenoid magnet heads from Genova to Geneva…'
The first of five modules that will form the superconducting solenoid magnet for the CMS experiment at CERN was ready to leave the Italian port of Genova at the end of January, subject to good weather...
Read article '…while the ATLAS solenoid approaches its final position'
The ATLAS superconducting solenoid has been moved for nearly the last time and is now in position in the assembly hall on the Meyrin site at CERN, opposite the cryostat that will house the liquid-argo...
Read article 'STAR prepares to shine a light on spin'
A major milestone has been reached for the STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with the hoisting of the upper half of the endcap electromagnetic calorimeter (EEMC) int...
Read article 'Components from Iran en route for CMS'
The first of a pair of steel tables and shielding superstructures, which will house the two 110 tonne forward hadron calorimeters for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are due at ...
Read article 'The time projection chamber turns 25'
Since its birth 25 years ago, the time projection chamber has developed into a mature technology that is used in many fields, as Spencer Klein describes.
