Read article 'First LHC results aired in Hamburg'
"Physics at the LHC 2010", which took place at DESY in Hamburg on 7–12 June, was the first large conference to discuss 7 TeV collision data from the LHC.
Read article 'Two-orbit energy recovery linac operates at Novosibirsk free-electron laser facility'
Over the past 30Â years, the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk has developed many free-electron lasers (FELs).
Read article 'X-rays reveal missing matter in hot gas'
X-ray observations suggest that about half of the ordinary, baryonic matter in the universe is in the form of hot, diffuse gas. The detection of absorption lines from the Sculptor Wall by the two lead...
Read article 'The LHC takes first steps to higher intensities'
The weeks following the first collisions at 7Â TeV in the centre of mass have seen the LHC pass important milestones in delivering higher instantaneous luminosity to the experiments.
Read article 'Roman lead will shield CUORE experiment'
Twenty years ago, an amateur scuba diver swimming off the coast of Oristano in Sardinia found a navis oneraria magna – a 36-m Roman ship dating back more than 2000 years, to between 80 and 50 BC â...
Read article 'ALICE reveals first results at 7 TeV'
The results confirm that the charged-particle multiplicity appears to be rising with energy faster than expected.
Read article 'Strategy meeting looks forward to high-power laser acceleration'
A meeting at GSI Darmstadt on 8–10 April provided a first opportunity to formulate a strategy on the laser technology needed to meet the challenge of future accelerators that will use or rely on la...
Read article 'EuCARD: mixing neutrinos, crab cavities, magnets and more'
Under a cloud of volcanic ash, the first annual meeting of the European Co-ordination for Accelerator Research & Development (EuCARD) project took place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the UK...
Read article 'Fermi limits the intergalactic magnetic field'
Astronomers have found evidence that the magnetic field between galaxies cannot be negligible. Otherwise, a blazar observed by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS, CERN Courier January/February ...
Read article 'Let the physics begin at the LHC'
The big LHC experiments have been 20Â years in the making; the meeting at which the proto-collaborations first presented their ideas publicly took place in Evian-les-Bains in March 1992.
