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.
Read article 'RICH meeting provides a wealth of information'
RICH2004, held in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, presented a snapshot of the lively field of Cherenkov light imaging.
Read article 'Physics in the Italian Alps'
In February, 120 physicists travelled to the mountain village of La Thuile in Italy to discuss results and perspectives in particle physics. Michael Koratzinos reports.
Read article 'Rewriting the rules on proton acceleration'
Ken Takayama describes recent tests at KEK that have demonstrated induction acceleration in a proton synchrotron.
Read article 'LHC upgrade takes shape with CARE and attention'
Even before the Large Hadron Collider has accelerated its first beams, various groups have begun to plan an upgrade scheduled for around the middle of the next decade.
Read article 'Exploiting the synergy between great and small'
Cosmological discoveries shed new light on the nature of fundamental particles, and vice versa. This synergy between the greatest and the smallest components of the universe was the subject of the 200...
Read article 'STAR has silicon at its core'
A silicon strip detector is providing more power for particle detection in Brookhaven National Laboratory's STAR experiment.
Read article 'HERA hits new heights'
Ferdinand Willeke reports on the challenges faced by the HERA crew to get the accelerator back into full swing after a major luminosity upgrade in 2001.
