Read article 'CMS drift-tube chambers pass cosmic test'
CMS drift-tube chambers pass cosmic test
The CMS collaboration has for the first time operated a whole sector of drift-tube chambers (DTCs) and detected cosmic muons
Read article 'CMS drift-tube chambers pass cosmic test'
Read article 'Last major component installed at CNGS'
Last major component installed at CNGS
The magnetic system that focuses the beam of particles arising from the graphite target of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project (CNGS) has been installed in its final position in the tunnel.
Read article 'Silver isotope exhibits exotic radioactivity'
Silver isotope exhibits exotic radioactivity
Since soon after its discovery by Henri Becquerel in 1896, radioactivity has been known to involve the emission of helium nuclei (alphas), electrons (betas) and photons (gammas).
Read article 'CERN consolidates links with Pakistan'
CERN consolidates links with Pakistan
On 25 January Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, visited CERN with five government ministers, Parvez Butt, president of Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), and an eminent former preside...
Read article 'Going beyond the Standard Model'
Going beyond the Standard Model
A five-part workshop has been launched at CERN to study the interplay between the physics of particle flavour and the physics achievable at particle colliders.
Read article 'Microlensing detects most Earth-like exoplanet'
Microlensing detects most Earth-like exoplanet
A planet of a mass of only about five times that of the Earth has been discovered at a distance of about 20,000 light years, not far from the centre of the Milky Way. It circles its parent low-mass st...
Read article 'LHC’s installation makes progress'
LHC’s installation makes progress
CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar praised the immense progress made towards the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project when he addressed the 135th session of the CERN Council on 16 December 2005.
Read article 'Open-access moves ahead for physics'
Open-access moves ahead for physics
Eighty representatives from several major physics publishers, European particle-physics laboratories, learned societies, funding agencies and authors from Europe and the US met at CERN on 7-8 December...
Read article 'Super-Kamiokande gets full refit'
Super-Kamiokande gets full refit
Operation of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) II detector in Japan was terminated last October after three years of running to begin a full restoration of the detector.
Read article 'Belle achieves new luminosity record'
Belle achieves new luminosity record
By mid-afternoon on 22 November, the Belle experiment at KEK had accumulated an integrated luminosity of 500 fb-1 of electron-positron collision data.
