Read article 'NESTOR sees muons at the bottom of the sea'
On 29 March the NESTOR collaboration successfully deployed the first "floor" for a detector tower at its site 4000 m deep in the Ionian Sea.
Read article 'MACRO delivers its final word on monopoles'
The MACRO experiment searched for magnetic monopoles throughout the 1990s. It found none but set stringent limits.
Read article 'The curtain goes up on OPERA'
The first module for the target tracker for OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) was centre stage at the Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS) in Strasbourg in January, wh...
Read article 'DAFNE goes hypernuclear'
A new experiment at the Frascati laboratory's φ-factory is set to investigate the strange world of the hypernucleus.
Read article 'KamLAND experiment discovers that reactor antineutrinos ‘disappear’'
The first results from six months of data-taking by the KamLAND experiment in Japan indicate that electron antineutrinos from distant nuclear reactors are "disappearing" on their way to the detector.
Read article 'Aerogel sees the light for LHCb detector'
Particle identification is a fundamental requirement for experiments such as LHCb that are dedicated to the study of B physics.
Read article 'Acoustic manoeuvres in the dark'
The ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope has passed twin deployment milestones on its way to implementation. Greg Hallewell reports.
Read article 'Superkamiokande resumes operation'
Just over a year ago, an accident at the Superkamiokande detector in Japan brought neutrino experiments there to a temporary conclusion.
Read article 'Radiation hard silicon detectors lead the way'
3D silicon detectors offer exciting new approaches to imaging for particle physics and other fields. Cinzia DaVia' explains.
Read article 'CMS assembly enters its next phase'
Assembly of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, being built for physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, reached an important turning point in October.
