Read article 'Fast fragmentation produces double firsts for exotic nuclei'
Studies of transition rates between excited states and ground states in these nuclei provide important information to test shell-model predictions.
Read article 'The LOFAR radio telescope detects its first pulsar'
Using its first station of distributed radio antennas, the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has successfully detected the pulsar PSR B0329+54.
Read article 'Major milestone for ‘mighty magnet’ as it goes the distance'
The LHC is not yet up and running, but already physicists and engineers in Europe, Japan and the US are working towards upgrades for the machine.
Read article 'RHIC glimpses process that could limit LHC'
Brookhaven National Laboratory have provided the first observations at a particle collider of bound-free pair production.
Read article 'IHEP and CERN collaborate well on beam-loss monitors'
The LHC beam-loss monitoring (BLM) system is the key to protecting the machine against dangerous beam "losses" of this kind.
Read article 'First phase of BEPCII complete'
The first phase of commissioning BEPCII, the major upgrade of the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPC) came to a successful conclusion on 3 August, when the beam current reached 500 mA at 1.8...
Read article 'Black holes appear to play a role in the evolution of the universe'
Are black holes just a curiosity of nature or do they play a role in the formation and shaping of galaxies? The results of the most accomplished simulation to date show that the evolution of galaxies ...
Read article 'Europe’s astroparticle physicists publish roadmap to the stars'
The Astroparticle Physics European Coordination (ApPEC) consortium and the AStroParticle European Research Area (ASPERA) network have together published a roadmap giving an overview of the status and ...
Read article 'NSF selects Homestake for deep lab site'
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected a proposal to produce a technical design for a deep underground science and engineering laboratory (DUSEL) at the former Homestake gold mine near ...
Read article 'KEK achieves first operation of crab cavities'
A team of accelerator physicists at KEK has achieved effective head-on collisions of electrons and positrons while retaining the crossing angle. They accomplished this at the KEKB collider using new d...
