Read article 'Gamma-ray facility inaugurated in Namibia'
The first telescope of the high-energy stereoscopic system (HESS), named in honour of Victor Hess, the discoverer of cosmic radiation, was officially inaugurated in Namibia in September.
Read article 'LHCb receives delivery from Russia'
The LHCb collaboration, dedicated to studying CP violation in B-meson decays at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has received the first components of its calorimeter system from Russia.
Read article 'Grid technology developed by ALICE'
The ALICE experiment, which is being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, has developed the ALICE production environment.
Read article 'MiniBOONE goes live at Fermilab'
The MiniBOONE experiment at Fermilab inthe US saw its first neutrinos in September.
Read article 'More to physics than meets the eye'
Handling, presenting and understanding the complex track patterns produced in the collisions of high-energy particles calls for considerable ingenuity. Gordon Fraser talks to CERN collision display sp...
Read article 'ALICE crystals arrive at CERN'
The first 500 crystals for the ALICE experiment's photon spectrometer (PHOS) arrived at CERN in May after a journey via Moscow from the town of Apatity in the Russian arctic region.
Read article 'PAMELA set to take particle physics into orbit'
The PAMELA experiment, scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome next year, is set to provide a better understanding of the antimatter component of cosmic rays. Mark Pearce reports.
Read article 'Meeting heralds global GW detector network'
As the curtain is being raised on today's generation of gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the individual project teams met to consider future detectors and the goal of running the global ensemble of ...
Read article 'MiniBooNE detector is complete'
The MiniBooNE experiment at the US Fermilab achieved two major milestones recently, as the tank was filled with the last drops of mineral oil and the first trickle of beam was delivered to the tempora...
Read article 'Symposium aims to uncover dark secrets'
The 5th Symposium of Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, held in February at Marina del Rey, California, focused on the current state of detection and theoretical stu...
