Read article 'Looking at cosmic rays with accelerator detectors'
Large detectors constructed at accelerator labs can also be used in parallel for cosmic-ray studies. Effects measured in distant detectors could be correlated to provide a broader view of particles fr...
Read article 'ALEPH experiments go cosmic'
After analysing cosmic muon events, five were found with the highest muon density ever seen.Designed to study man-made electronpositron collisions in CERN's LEP ring, the ALEPH detector is also idea...
Read article 'L3+C = new tool set to study cosmic-ray muons'
Also under way at CERN is the L3 experiment at LEP, which has installed a 200 sq. m screen of scintillator to intercept comic rays arriving from the atmosphere.
Read article 'MINOS to explore neutrino mass'
Deep in a former Minnesota iron mine, scientists and government officials recently wielded pickaxes to chip away, at least symbolically, at the mysteries surrounding the subatomic particles known as n...
Read article 'KEK: initial B for BELLE'
On 1 June, after five years of planning and five years of construction, the BELLE detector recorded its first B meson events at the KEKB electronpositron B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan. During this fir...
Read article 'Beijing tests complete precision measurement'
The BES II spectrometer at the Beijing electronpositron collider (BEPC) has completed a measurement of hadron production rates over the 25 GeV energy range which is valuable input for Standard Mod...
Read article 'COMPASS course to future computing'
A major new spectrometer that is being installed at CERN will be a flagship fixed-target experiment for the millennium. Its voracious appetite for data requires new computing solutions, opening the do...
Read article 'Magnetic detector sees cosmic-ray anomalies'
From 2 to 12 June 1998, AMS was the primary payload of NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery in orbit 400 km above the Earth.
Read article 'B-factory sees first B events'
On the morning of 26 May 1999, physicists recorded the first events in the large BaBar detector at the asymmetric B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Read article 'Precision physics progress'
CERN's LEP electronpositron collider has underlined the importance of precision measurements in particle physics.
