Read article 'LHC hardware commissioning continues to make solid progress'
Commissioning the LHC is making steady progress towards the target of achieving a complete cool down by the middle of June, allowing the first injection of beams soon after.
Read article 'Astronomers find galaxy at record distance'
The joint forces of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have identified a source that is likely to be the most distant galaxy known to date. If confirmed, this discovery will be a new mil...
Read article 'Brookhaven laboratory develops stochastic cooling for RHIC'
Accelerator physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a way to apply the technique of stochastic cooling to the beams in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
Read article 'New limits constrain the WIMPs'
The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) has tightened constraints on the spin-dependent properties of the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that are candidates ...
Read article 'UA1 magnet sets off for a second new life'
A magnet built originally for the UA1 detector at CERN and later used by the NOMAD experiment has set sail for a new life in Japan.
Read article 'ICFA calls for stability in science funding'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) has issued a statement on the need for continuous and stable funding for large international science projects, such as the proposed Internati...
Read article 'Teams mark final fitting of warm magnets'
The LHC is well known for its hundreds of superconducting magnet assemblies, but it will also use 154 normally conducting "warm" magnets.
Read article '…while LHCb gets data collection on track'
On 8 February, the LHCb collaboration succeeded in extracting data from an almost-complete set of detectors.
Read article 'ATLAS puts last piece in puzzle…'
The ATLAS collaboration celebrated lowering the final large piece of the detector into the underground cavern on 29 February.
Read article 'ALICE and CMS line up the final big pieces underground'
With the completion of two major installation projects, nearly all the infrastructure for the ALICE experiment is now in place in the cavern at Point 2 on the LHC ring, near St. Genis-Pouilly in Fra...
