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.
Read article 'End-cap toroids for ATLAS experiment are ready to roll'
The first part of the end-cap toroid system for the mighty ATLAS experiment, which is under preparation for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, will soon be on the road to CERN.
Read article 'Antennas tune in to high-energy particles'
After 40 years of research, physicists met at the First International Workshop on the Radio Detection of High Energy Particles to discuss the detection of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos using...
Read article 'HERA-B finds a new direction'
The DESY laboratory in Hamburg has accepted a proposal from the HERA-B experiment for a revised programme of research.
Read article 'Micropattern detectors promise a big future'
As well as being important in particle physics, multiwire detectors have been applied in other fields: X-rays for medical imaging, ultraviolet and single-photon detection, neutron and crystal diffrac...
Read article 'Listening for the music of gravity'
The latest generation of high-precision experiments is bringing observers one step closer to detecting the elusive song of gravity waves.
Read article 'High energies and high altitudes'
A recent meeting in Bolivia looked at the possibilities of mounting new physics instrumentation at the highest-altitude laboratory in the world. Larry Jones reports.
