Read article 'New CMS visitor centre proves a star attraction'
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, which is being carried out in preparation for the installation of CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC), became one of the laboratory's star visito...
Read article 'Neutron Time of Flight facility takes off smoothly at CERN'
There was a new arrival among CERN's family of particle beams when the laboratory's first intense beam of neutrons was produced at the new neutron Time Of Flight facility.
Read article 'Neutrinos get their grand OPERA'
The 2000 tonne OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion Tracking Apparatus) experiment has been approved for construction and operation in the CERN Neutrino Beam to Gran Sasso project.
Read article 'Three new experiments set to arrive at SLAC’s End Station A'
End Station A, the venerable fixed-target facility at the end of the two mile electron linear accelerator beam at SLAC, Stanford, where quarks were discovered in 1967, will soon see a high-energy be...
Read article 'Can gas detectors still compete with silicon?'
The big topic of debate at the 9th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation held in February was whether gaseous detectors can still compete with semiconductor technology.
Read article 'KEK solenoid passes full power test'
On 26 December 2000 the Japanese KEK laboratory accomplished full powering of the superconducting solenoid magnet for the forthcoming giant ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC collider.
Read article 'EC to fund project for faster optical detectors'
The project, known as "Impecable", will fund the development of more efficient and faster optical detectors by the newly formed consortium, leading to their subsequent production by Photek and Electr...
Read article 'STAR detector gets new silicon heart'
Recently Brookhaven's RHIC achieved another major milestone with the insertion of the Silicon Vertex Tracker into the heart of the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC detector.
Read article 'When the bubble chamber first burst onto the scene'
On 25 May 2001, Jack Steinberger, who shared the Nobel prize in 1988 and is one of CERN's stalwarts, reaches his 80th birthday. His memoirs of his early life were published in Annual Reviews of Nucle...
Read article 'Solar telescope CASTs the net for solar axions'
The CERN Solar Axion Telescope, CAST, aims to shed light on a 30-year-old riddle of particle physics by detecting axions originating from the 15 million degree plasma in the Sun's core.
