Read article 'MAGIC opens up the gamma-ray sky'
MAGIC opens up the gamma-ray sky
The MAGIC telescope was inaugurated on 10 October on the Canary Island of La Palma.
Read article 'MAGIC opens up the gamma-ray sky'
Read article 'Auger ready for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays'
Auger ready for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
With the completion of its 100th surface detector at the end of October, the Pierre Auger Observatory became the largest cosmic-ray air-shower array in the world.
Read article 'A heavy load arrives for ALICE'
A heavy load arrives for ALICE
On 25 September the two large coils for the ALICE dipole magnet arrived at Point 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after a 1200 km journey from their manufacturer.
Read article 'Constructing ATLAS: a modern ‘ship in a bottle’'
Constructing ATLAS: a modern ‘ship in a bottle’
Now that the civil engineering is complete, the cavern for the ATLAS detector at the LHC is ready for the complex business of installing the detector, as Robert Eisenstein explains.
Read article 'Germanium crystals measure position'
Germanium crystals measure position
Germanium crystals have long been used to study photons with energies from 50 keV to 10 MeV. Their excellent energy resolution (approaching 0.1%) has created numerous applications in nuclear and parti...
Read article 'MINOS project gets going on the far side'
MINOS project gets going on the far side
On 14 August, after four years of mining, construction and testing, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) collaboration announced the start-up of its 5400 tonne neutrino detector in th...
Read article 'ALICE prepares for still higher energies'
ALICE prepares for still higher energies
Collisions of lead ions at the LHC will take heavy-ion physics into a new high-energy regime.
Read article 'Frontier techniques for particle physics and beyond'
Frontier techniques for particle physics and beyond
Giorgio Chiarelli reports from the 9th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, held this year on the island of Elba.
Read article 'ATLAS cavern ready for its detector'
ATLAS cavern ready for its detector
The ATLAS cavern has become the first new experimental cavern for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be handed over to CERN by civil-engineering contractors.
Read article '‘Naked’ crystals go underground'
‘Naked’ crystals go underground
On 5 May, four "naked" high-purity germanium detectors were installed in liquid nitrogen in the GENIUS Test Facility (GENIUS-TF) at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory.
