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...
Read article 'Detector trends by Georges Charpak'
Every year sees the emergence of new breeds of detectors and the improvement of existing ones, but the innovations which go on to make a significant impact on physics research are limited. The large i...
Read article 'ALEPH'
Our previous issue carried the first of a series of articles (DELPHI, page 27) on the four major experiments for CERN’s 9 kilometre diameter LEP electron–positron ring, now under construction an...
Read article 'Gargamelle: CERN’s new heavy liquid bubble chamber'
The famous Gargamelle bubble chamber, featured in the May 1968 issue, went on to gather the first direct evidence of the weak neutral current.
