Read article 'New BMBF funding for LHC experiments'
In February the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF, set up new funding for the German universities and institutions involved in ALICE, ATLAS and CMS.
Read article 'CMS solenoid makes successful descent'
At 6.00 a.m. on 28 February the heaviest section of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector began its momentous journey into the experiment's cavern, 100 m below ground.
Read article 'Diamond welcomes its first scientific users'
The Diamond Light Source, the UK's new synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire, has welcomed its first scientific users after opening its doors for business in February.
Read article 'Galaxy centre may harbour super accelerator'
Although the super-massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy seems very quiet compared with those seen as quasars in remote galaxies, it might be a giant proton accelerator more powerful than CER...
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 ...
