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...
Read article 'DEAR pins down kaonic hydrogen'
The DEAR (DAFNE Exotic Atoms Research) experiment at the DAFNE φ factory at Frascati has performed the most accurate determination of the effect of the strong interaction on the binding energy of kao...
Read article 'SLAC reorganizes and prepares for next major breakthroughs'
On 24 May, Jonathan Dorfan, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), announced a complete reorganization of the structure and senior management of the laboratory, which Stanford Univ...
Read article 'Variation in weak force found by E158'
The E158 experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has made a landmark observation: the strength of the weak force acting on two electrons lessens when the electrons are far apart.
Read article 'Superconducting cavities from single-crystal niobium could offer stability and lower costs'
A potentially cost-saving and performance-enhancing new approach to fabricating superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) accelerating cavities has been demonstrated by the Institute for Superconducting Ra...
Read article 'Theory demystifies supermassive black holes'
The existence of powerful quasars at high redshift raises the question of the rapid formation of supermassive black holes. How could early black holes accrete 1 billion solar masses in less than 1 bil...
Read article 'LHC cryogenic unit keeps its cool'
The cryogenic system for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN reached a major milestone on 7 April by achieving operation of the unit at Point 8 at its nominal temperature of 1.8 K.
Read article 'Analysis method measures angle γ'
Up to a few years ago, no significant measurement of the angle γ in the unitarity triangle of B-meson physics was expected to come out of the current B-factories.
Read article 'CMS VPT production reaches 10,000 mark'
The CMS experiment, under construction for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, recently took delivery of its 10,000th vacuum phototriode (VPT), to be used in the Electromagnetic Endcap Calorimete...
Read article 'Double dose of magic proves key to element production'
Researchers at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have reported the first measurement of the half-life of nickel-78.
