Read article 'ATLAS puts last piece in puzzle…'
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 'ATLAS puts last piece in puzzle…'
Read article 'ALICE and CMS line up the final big pieces underground'
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...
Read article 'Positrons prefer one side of the galaxy'
Positrons prefer one side of the galaxy
A new study of the gamma-ray emission of positron annihilation in the Milky Way reveals an asymmetric distribution in the galactic disc. The only sources known to have a similar asymmetry are low-mass...
Read article 'Construction of IceCube project at the South Pole reaches the halfway point'
Construction of IceCube project at the South Pole reaches the halfway point
The teams installing the IceCube experiment at the South Pole have completed a highly successful austral summer season, during which they installed 18 detector strings – 4 more than in the baselin...
Read article 'Particle physics in the UK is facing a severe funding crisis'
Particle physics in the UK is facing a severe funding crisis
The UK increased an additional £1200 m in the budget for science but this leads to a deficit of £80 in particle physics.
Read article 'Superstrings reveal the interior structure of a black hole'
Superstrings reveal the interior structure of a black hole
A research group at KEK has succeeded in calculating the state inside a black hole using computer simulations based on superstring theory.
Read article 'The team at SPIN@COSY looks inside a spin resonance'
The team at SPIN@COSY looks inside a spin resonance
The SPIN@COSY polarized-beam team has found striking new results while studying the spin-manipulation of polarized deuterons at the Cooler Synchrotron (COSY) at the Forschungszentrum in Jülich.
Read article 'Hot plasma fills the Orion nebula'
Hot plasma fills the Orion nebula
Observations with the XMM-Newton satellite have revealed soft X-ray emission from an extended region in the Orion nebula. The most massive stars in the heart of the nebula are probably at the origin o...
Read article 'ASACUSA moves towards new antihydrogen experiments'
ASACUSA moves towards new antihydrogen experiments
Recently, the Japanese–European group made the first steps towards producing a low-velocity antihydrogen beam.
Read article 'Camera captures image of two-proton decay'
Camera captures image of two-proton decay
In work that harks back to the early days of nuclear physics, an international team of researchers at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) has used a novel ...
