Read article 'Raising the dead detectors'
The RD39 collaboration at CERN investigates heavily irradiated silicon detectors operated at cryogenic temperatures. Its results show that, below 100 K, such detectors can be brought back to life. T...
Read article 'Perfect rose'
The Rose collaboration (RD48: R&D on silicon for future experiments) at CERN has tackled the same problem as RD39,
from a different angle but with similar success. Its approach is "defect engineering...
Read article 'Probing the pomeron'
What ultimately controls the way particles interact? Different particles appear to interact at high energies in similar ways through a mechanism known as pomeron exchange. Sandy Donnachie explains wha...
Read article 'Silicon detectors: pushing up daisies or coming up roses?'
Read article 'The quest for gravitational waves'
The gravitational waves emitted by accelerated masses were predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity as long ago as 1916, but so far remain undetected.
Read article 'Making tracks for the LHC'
Pictures ultimately provide the most graphic record of of particle interactions. For CERN's LHC collider, sophisticated electronic "eyes" at the heart of the big ATLAS and CMS detectors will pick up ...
Read article 'Challenging the Big Bang: a longer history of time'
Conventional dogma says that the Big Bang was the beginning of everything. Here, Gabriele Veneziano of CERN challenges this view. He believes that the Big Bang is the biggest thing that the universe ...
Read article 'The ratchet of time'
New results remind us how, in the strange world of the neutral kaon, a fast rewind does not necessarily take you back to where you started.
Read article 'Directions beyond the Standard Model'
The annual theory workshop at the German DESY laboratory in Hamburg traditionally focuses on a burning physics issue. The latest event, exploring "Directions beyond the Standard Model", tried to pee...
Read article 'Relic neutrinos, a challenge for the next millennium'
Neutrinos created in the first seconds after the Big Bang could hold vital clues about the evolution of the universe. A workshop in Trieste looked at a wealth of intriguing possibilities.
