Read article 'Finding the speed limit for galactic positrons'
A new analysis of diffuse galactic gamma-ray data sets constraints on the initial energy of positrons produced in the centre of our galaxy. This limitation to at most a few mega-electron-volts severel...
Read article 'Wakefield exceeds 1 GeV in 3.3 cm'
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), together with colleagues from the University of Oxford , have accelerated electrons to more than 1 GeV in only 3.3 cm. This i...
Read article 'Mather and Smoot share Nobel for precise observations of the CMB'
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 recognizes research that studies the young universe, before the first stars were born and before galaxies began to form.
Read article 'Researchers unveil the PASER: a novel acceleration scheme'
Researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have used the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to demonstrate the feasib...
Read article 'LHC prepares for cooling while magnets pass the 1000 mark'
The first cryogenic feedbox designed to supply electricity to the superconducting magnets for one of eight arcs has been installed at Point 8 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read article 'LHCf: a tiny new experiment joins the LHC'
While most of the LHC experiments are on a grand scale, LHC forward (LHCf) is quite different.
Read article 'ATLAS installs first of the big wheels'
September saw the completion in the underground cavern of the first of the big wheels for the ATLAS muon spectrometer.
Read article 'Subaru finds most distant galaxy'
Japanese astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have detected the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Light from this source was emitted 780 million years after the Big Bang, at ...
Read article 'OPERA experiment detects first neutrinos in beam from CERN'
For the first time, on 18 August, the OPERA detector in the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy recorded the interactions of neutrinos sent from CERN, 732 km away.
Read article 'CMS magnet reaches full field after eight years of construction'
The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet, built for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), reached full field on 28 August.
