Read article 'New detectors for physics at a new mass scale'
Workshops on next-generation neutrino detectors and devices to detect possible nucleon decay have been held since 1999. Jacques Bouchez of the French atomic energy commission (CEA) reports on the most...
Read article 'Particle physics software aids space and medicine'
Geant4 is a showcase example of technology transfer from particle physics to other fields such as space and medical science, argue Maria Grazia Pia and Jürgen Knobloch.
Read article 'Superkamiokande to be rebuilt this year'
Investigations carried out since then have shown a way to prevent such accidents happening again, and rebuilding is now under way.
Read article 'CERN receives a special delivery'
The first of eight 25 m coil casings for the ATLAS experiment's barrel toroid magnet system arrived at CERN in March by road from Germany.
Read article 'Helping the AMS experiment to detect antiparticles in space'
Particle physicists involved in the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment are eagerly scanning data recorded during a December 2001 NASA space shuttle mission.
Read article 'Underground lab open for business'
The expansion of the University of Minnesota's Soudan underground laboratory is now complete.
Read article 'Pierre Auger Observatory in action'
On a cold, clear night last May the shutters rolled away from the aperture window.
Read article 'Accident at major detector in Japan'
The extent of the damage suggested some kind of chain reaction in the tubes, with one implosion setting off the next. It happened as the detector was being refilled with water after routine maintena...
Read article 'Accident ruins major detector'
On 12 November, thousands of photomultipliers imploded in the huge Superkamiokande detector in Japan, which has produced important results on neutrino physics.
Read article 'DELPHI goes home to Delphi'
Although CERN's LEP electron-positron collider finished operating in November 2000, analysis of the enormous amount of data it produced will continue for some time.
