Read article 'Incident in sector 3-4 of the LHC'
Commissioning of the LHC came to an abrupt halt at midday on 19 September, when an incident occurred in sector 3-4 that resulted in a large helium leak in the LHC tunnel.
Read article 'The LHC sees its first circulating beam'
At 10.28 am on 10 September, the first beam made the full 27 km journey around the LHC, travelling in a clockwise direction.
Read article 'The LHC: from dream to reality'
Robert Aymar on the start-up of the LHC.
Read article 'Neutron-rich nuclei reveal new secrets'
Two research teams at Michigan State University’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have reported fresh findings about neutron-rich nuclei
Read article 'Polarization brings to light the accretion discs inside quasars'
The extreme luminosity of quasars is thought to be generated by supermassive black holes accreting surrounding material at the heart of galaxies. If the accretion has a preferred rotation axis, the in...
Read article 'Cryogenic jets defy Rayleigh’s theory'
Many technical and scientific applications, such as experiments with internal targets at particle accelerators, require the transport into an interaction zone of substances that are gaseous at room te...
Read article 'PHIL: a new test facility for LAL'
A new linac test facility is under construction at the Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Orsay.
Read article 'GDE looks at proposed ILC site in Russia'
JINR, Dubna, was host to the latest in the general meetings of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for a future International Linear Collider (ILC).
Read article 'BEPC II celebrates the first collision events'
Although BEPC II and BE III had already been carefully tested separately, this was the first time that they had operated together.
Read article 'BaBar gets right to the bottom'
The BaBar collaboration, working at SLAC has observed the ground state of the bottomonium family, a new meson.
