Read article 'J-PARC linac accelerates hydrogen ions up to 181 MeV design value'
On 24 January the linac for the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) successfully accelerated a beam of negative hydrogen ions up to 181 MeV, the design energy for Phase I of the projec...
Read article 'ALICE’s TPC arrives at experiment cavern…'
In early January ALICE's time projection chamber (TPC) moved 300 m from the assembly hall to the experiment cavern, taking four days to complete the journey.
Read article '…while ATLAS toroid takes a steady trip'
The first End-Cap Toroid (ECT) for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC has begun the last stage of its journey to the underground cavern.
Read article 'U70 proton synchrotron goes ahead with stochastic extraction'
The new advanced slow stochastic extraction (SSE) system at the U70, the 70 GeV proton synchrotron at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, has operated successfully during normal...
Read article 'Gravitational waves could probe inflation'
“In the beginning was the Word,” opens the gospel of John, and this finds some resonance in the possibility of detecting gravitational waves from the Big Bang itself at frequencies typical...
Read article 'LHC on course for 2007 start-up'
As the final countdown begins towards the scheduled start-up of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN later this year, work on the machine and the experiments has seen a series of achievements during the ...
Read article 'Scientists at the D0 experiment discover new path to the top'
On 8 December, scientists from the D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron announced the first evidence for top quarks produced singly, rather than in pairs.
Read article 'BEPCII makes progress towards switch-on'
The BEPCII project, a major upgrade and natural extension of the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPC), has passed an important milestone with beam now circulating in the outer ring and the sync...
Read article 'X-ray laser pulses light up the nano-world'
An international team of scientists using the soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY has achieved a world first by taking a high-resolution diffraction image of a non-crystalline sample with one...
Read article 'GEM structure makes self-portrait'
In 1996 Fabio Sauli at CERN introduced the gas electron multiplier (GEM) – a new idea for gas amplification in particle detection.
