Read article 'BEPC II celebrates the first collision events'
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 'BEPC II celebrates the first collision events'
Read article 'BaBar gets right to the bottom'
BaBar gets right to the bottom
The BaBar collaboration, working at SLAC has observed the ground state of the bottomonium family, a new meson.
Read article 'D0 snares last rare boson pair'
D0 snares last rare boson pair
The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons produced in proton–antiproton collisions.
Read article 'LHC: countdown to beam begins'
LHC: countdown to beam begins
As the cool-down phase of commissioning the LHC came towards a successful conclusion at the beginning of August, CERN announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made on 10...
Read article 'A supernova is caught in the act of exploding'
A supernova is caught in the act of exploding
Astronomers have, for the first time, observed a star in the act of exploding. The event happened in January while NASA’s Swift satellite was observing another supernova in the same galaxy. The ...
Read article '…and time flies for the ALICE detector'
…and time flies for the ALICE detector
During the last week of April, the ALICE experiment’s time-of-flight (TOF) detector was completed and installed in the experimental cavern.
Read article 'CMS completes milestone installation of beam pipe…'
CMS completes milestone installation of beam pipe…
On 10 June the CMS collaboration reached another major milestone when the heart of the detector, the beam pipe, was fully installed after 15 years of complex design and manufacture.
Read article 'High-energy physics labs become INSPIREd'
High-energy physics labs become INSPIREd
CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC have announced that they will join forces to build INSPIRE, the next-generation, high-energy physics (HEP) information system.
Read article 'Protons and neutrons certainly prefer each other’s company'
Protons and neutrons certainly prefer each other’s company
Researchers at the Jefferson Lab have found that neutron–proton pairs in the ground state carbon-12 nucleus are far more common than proton–proton pairs and neutron–neutron pairs.
Read article 'GLAST in orbit to explore extreme universe'
GLAST in orbit to explore extreme universe
The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) was launched by NASA on 11 June from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
