Read article 'ALICE through a gamma-ray looking glass'
The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles. Its design combines an excellent vertex resolution with a ...
Read article 'ALICE looks to the future'
After more than three years of highly successful operation, the ALICE detector is about to undergo a major programme of consolidation and upgrade during the Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) of CERN’s ac...
Read article 'Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies'
Under extreme conditions of temperature and/or density, hadronic matter “melts” into a plasma of free quarks and gluons – the so-called quark–gluon plasma (QGP). To create these condit...
Read article 'Progress in applied superconductivity at KEK'
Fig. 1. The interaction-region quadrupole (IRQ) magnet integrated into the BELLE detector and its solenoid magnet at KEKB, top. The Japanese High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization, or KE...
Read article 'AMS takes off for Kennedy Space Center'
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, left Geneva on 26 August on the penultimate leg of its journey to the International Spac...
Read article 'The LHC’s new frontier'
A look at events on the day of the first 7 TeV collisions.
Read article 'Trieste workshop puts a RICH variety on show'
Ring imaging Cherenkov (RICH) counters provide a unique tool to identify charged particles by measuring their velocity, even when it differs from the velocity of light by only one part in 10 million....
Read article 'Solving the mystery of the missing neutrinos'
In the May 2007 issue, Nick Jelley and Alan Poon looked back at the achievements of the SNO experiment.
Read article 'PET and CT: a perfect fit'
David Townsend is a professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee (TN). The winner of the 2004 Clinical Scientist of the Year Award from the A...
Read article 'Needles in high-speed haystacks'
The new generation of big proton–proton colliders now being planned in Europe and the US aims to open up the collision physics of the constituent quarks and gluons hidden deep inside the proton. Loc...
