Read article 'Telescope takes next step to high-energy frontier'
In April, while Lake Baikal in Siberia was iced over, the neutrino telescope 1.1 km below the surface was successfully upgraded with three additional strings. Renamed NT200+ it is tailored to search ...
Read article 'ClearPET offers improved insight into animal brains'
An efficient new PET scanner for the small animal brain, developed by the Crystal Clear collaboration, is now in production.
Read article 'PET and CT: a perfect fit'
In the June 2005 issue of CERN Courier (the last to be published jointly in French and English), David Townsend – who began his pioneering work in PET imaging 30 years earlier while a staff member a...
Read article 'Energy-recovering linacs begin maturing'
The ERL2005 Workshop at Jefferson Lab in March - the first of its kind - reviewed an innovative use of electron linacs in light sources and, potentially, particle colliders.
Read article 'HERA and LHC workshops help prepare for the future'
A series of workshops has given scientists the opportunity to discover how the studies currently being carried out at HERA will influence future physics at the LHC.
Read article 'Records fall at Cornell'
Experiments at Cornell are breaking records for accelerating gradients and Q values in superconducting radio-frequency cavities, reports Hasan Padamsee.
Read article 'Hard probes conference finds success in Portugal'
In November, more than 100 enthusiasts headed to a fishing village near Lisbon for the first international conference on hard probes of heavy-ion collisions, Hard Probes 2004.
Read article 'The ice cube at the end of the world'
What do you get when you take 1 Gt of water, cool it to -40 °C and add 4800 phototubes? The answer is IceCube, a neutrino telescope now being deployed at the South Pole.
Read article 'CERN’s innovations mean real benefits for industry'
The ever-increasing high-technology requirements of particle-physics research provide a fertile ground for CERN's Technology Transfer Group, as Beatrice Bressan describes.
Read article 'VENUS reveals the future of heavy-ion sources'
VENUS, the latest superconducting ECR ion source, is blazing the trail for the next generation of heavy-ion accelerators, as Daniela Leitner of LBNL explains.
