Read article 'Assembly of CMS magnet begins'
The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet for the CMS experiment at CERN's LHC collider recently took an important step towards completion when the first ring of its barrel yoke was ass...
Read article 'WASA meson detector inaugurated'
During the recent PANIC99 particle/nuclear physics conference, CELSIUS/WASA, a new detector facility for the CELSIUS cooler storage ring, was inaugurated.
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.
