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ATLAS superconducting solenoid succeeds in full commissioning

The ATLAS Collaboration passed a major milestone during the evening of 1 August.

D0 finds evidence for WZ pair production

The D0 Collaboration at Fermilab has announced the first measurement of the cross-section for WZ pair production in proton–antiproton collisions.

LHC dipole installation gets to half-way mark

The installation of the 616th dipole for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 12 July marked the half-way point for the machine's 1232 dipole magnets.

CMS gets ready for its descent underground

July saw some major manoeuvres for the CMS detector, as the collaboration prepares to lower it into its final position on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

PAMELA looks for dark matter and antimatter

PAMELA will stay in space for at least three years, on a 70° elliptic orbit at an altitude of 300–600 km.

Japanese source starts lasing at 49 nm wavelength in VUV

On 20 June, the SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS) prototype accelerator generated its first pulses at a wavelength of 49 nm in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region.

Trap gives precise new value for fine structure constant

A team at Harvard University has made a new precise measurement of the electron magnetic moment, which in turns allows the fine structure constant to be determined with an uncertainty 10 times smaller...

Satellite gives a new view of pulsars

Observations of old pulsars by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite fail to detect the 1 million-degree hot spots seen around the pole of younger pulsars. The absence of polar X...

LHC start-up confirmed for 2007

First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will occur in November 2007, LHC project leader Lyn Evans told the 137th meeting of the CERN Council on 23 June.