Read article 'Swift catches afterglows of gamma-ray bursts'
The ability of NASA’s Swift satellite to point its X-ray telescope rapidly towards gamma-ray bursts is, for the first time, allowing the study of the afterglow phase a minute or so after the act...
Read article 'Fermilab’s Recycler beams take electron cooling to new heights'
After 10 years of preparation, a team at Fermilab has achieved electron cooling at high energy.
Read article 'KamLAND detects geoneutrinos'
The Kamioka liquid-scintillator antineutrino detector (KamLAND) has made the first observation of "geoneutrinos".
Read article 'ATLAS calorimeter records cosmic-ray events underground'
On the evening of 21 June, the ATLAS detector, now being installed in the underground experimental hall UX15 at CERN, reached an important psychological milestone: the first cosmic-ray events were rec...
Read article 'BaBar collaboration detects new resonance'
Charmonium spectroscopy has seen a revival over the past year or so, with various groups reporting heavy charmonium states (see CERN Courier January 2004 p9). The BaBar collaboration has now added to ...
Read article 'Belle observes b → d'
The Belle collaboration, with a detector operating at the KEKB facility, has recently reported that they have observed the rare b → d transitions.
Read article 'INFN and industry to build new cyclotron for hadron therapy'
Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), ACCEL Instruments GmbH and Ansaldo Superconduttori are to collaborate on a novel superconducting multiparticle cyclotron for hadron therapy...
Read article 'Astronomers discover possible 10th planet'
A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered orbiting the Sun at more than three times the current distance from the Sun to Pluto. It is a clear member of the Kuiper belt of objects beyond the orbit...
Read article 'CERN Courier turns bilingual'
Article from 2005 announcing the inclusion of articles in French and English in the CERN Courier due to the cease of the French version.
Read article 'CERN Council looks to strategy for European particle physics'
During its meeting in Geneva on 17 June, the CERN Council agreed to take on the role of defining the strategy and direction of European particle-physics research, a task already present in the foundin...
