Read article 'Mobilizing for the LHC'
Mobilizing for the LHC
Investigations following the incident in Sector 3-4 of the LHC on 19 September have confirmed that the cause was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets
Read article 'Mobilizing for the LHC'
Read article 'ALICE achieves energy recovery at Daresbury and Cockcroft Institute'
ALICE achieves energy recovery at Daresbury and Cockcroft Institute
At 2.00 a.m. on 13 December 2008, the commissioning team at the ALICE facility of the UK's Daresbury Laboratory and Cockcroft Institute successfully demonstrated "energy recovery" from a relativisti...
Read article 'CMS does a full cosmic-data run'
CMS does a full cosmic-data run
On 11 November 2008 the conclusion of a month-long, major data-taking run by the CMS collaboration brought a two-year commissioning phase to a successful close.
Read article 'MW linacs could supply medical isotopes'
MW linacs could supply medical isotopes
In late 2007, owing to an extended shutdown of Canada's National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River, North America experienced a critical shortage of the medical isotope molybdenum-99.
Read article 'High-energy physics team sets data-transfer world records'
High-energy physics team sets data-transfer world records
An international team led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with partners from Michigan, Florida, Tennessee, Fermilab, Brookhaven, CERN, Brazil, Estonia, Korea and Pakistan, set new...
Read article 'Pierre Auger Collaboration inaugurates observatory'
Pierre Auger Collaboration inaugurates observatory
More than 200 guests and 100 collaboration members celebrated the inauguration of the Pierre Auger Observatory at its southern site in Malargüe, Argentina, on 14 November.
Read article 'DESY awards two building contracts for European XFEL'
DESY awards two building contracts for European XFEL
The 3.4 km long research facility will be located between the DESY site at Bahrenfeld and the neighbouring town of Schenefeld.
Read article 'Proton-rich nuclei shed light on heavy-element synthesis in cosmos'
Proton-rich nuclei shed light on heavy-element synthesis in cosmos
Measurements of the half lives of two heavy elements by the NSCL.
Read article 'Chandra improves dark-energy constraints'
Chandra improves dark-energy constraints
Evidence that the nature of dark energy is a cosmological constant is gathering strength. By adding independent constraints on dark energy from X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies by the Chandr...
Read article 'Breaking ground for Linac 4'
Breaking ground for Linac 4
Civil engineering work has started on Linac 4, a major new renovation project for the CERN accelerator complex.
