Read article 'ICARUS starts to fly'
ICARUS starts to fly
The experiment for Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS) was officially inaugurated on 29 March at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory.
Read article 'ICARUS starts to fly'
Read article 'Experiments in Soudan mine seem fine after shaft fire'
Experiments in Soudan mine seem fine after shaft fire
Research teams think that there is little damage, if any, to the two large particle-physics experiments in the Soudan mine in Minnesota, following a fire in the access shaft on 17 March, which shut d...
Read article 'INTEGRAL sees gamma rays from black-hole jets'
INTEGRAL sees gamma rays from black-hole jets
A detailed analysis of observations of Cygnus X-1 by ESA’s International Gamma-ray Astronomical Laboratory (INTEGRAL) has found strongly polarized gamma-ray emission. The polarization sugge...
Read article 'Beams are back in the LHC'
Beams are back in the LHC
The LHC is back in action again after the technical stop that began on 6 December, with initial preparations for the 2011 run in full swing.
Read article 'Simon van der Meer 1925–2011'
Simon van der Meer 1925–2011
Many people in the high-energy physics community were deeply saddened to learn that Simon van der Meer passed away on 4 March.
Read article 'PAMELA data challenge theory for cosmic-ray acceleration'
PAMELA data challenge theory for cosmic-ray acceleration
The satellite experiment Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) has reported finding differences between the shapes of the energy spectra of protons and heliu...
Read article 'AIDA makes EU-funded access to European facilities available'
AIDA makes EU-funded access to European facilities available
Access to six European test facilities is now available as part of a new EU project funded by the FP7 Capacities Programme.
Read article 'ALICE gets with the flow'
ALICE gets with the flow
With data from the first heavy-ion run at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has made the first observation of elliptic flow of charged particles in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair.
Read article 'ATLAS goes in search of new physics'
ATLAS goes in search of new physics
Only a few months after the end of the 2010 data taking, the ATLAS experiment is entering its discovery phase at the LHC.
Read article 'CMS pursues the Higgs boson'
CMS pursues the Higgs boson
The CMS collaboration has announced its first results on the measurement of the W+W– production cross-section and on the related search for the Higgs boson in proton–proton collisions at the LHC a...
