Read article 'RHIC starts colliding copper with copper'
RHIC starts colliding copper with copper
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US has started colliding beams of copper ions.
Read article 'RHIC starts colliding copper with copper'
Read article 'U70 tests stochastic extraction scheme'
U70 tests stochastic extraction scheme
Tests for an advanced slow stochastic extraction (SSE) scheme have been performed successfully at the U70, the 70 GeV proton synchrotron at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, in ...
Read article 'Missing baryons found in hot gas'
Missing baryons found in hot gas
While it is well known that ordinary baryonic matter constitutes only about 5% of the total energy content of the universe, it is probably less commonly appreciated that about half of this “know...
Read article 'Astroparticle physics and cosmology laboratory opens in Paris'
Astroparticle physics and cosmology laboratory opens in Paris
New Year's Day 2005 saw the official birth of the Laboratoire d'AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC) in Paris.
Read article 'Signs that black holes swarm at galaxy centre'
Signs that black holes swarm at galaxy centre
A swarm of 10,000 black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. This estimate is based on theoretical expectations of the migration of black holes in our galaxy and the ob...
Read article 'LHC must keep to 2007 start-up'
LHC must keep to 2007 start-up
At the 131st session of Council on 17 December, CERN's director-general Robert Aymar confirmed that the organization's top priority is to maintain the goal of starting up the Large Hadron Collider (LH...
Read article 'The heart of ATLAS takes shape'
The heart of ATLAS takes shape
Particle physicists in the UK have completed the first critical element of the largest semiconductor tracker ever built, the ATLAS SCT, which is to form the innermost core of the giant detector that w...
Read article 'Carbon sheds light on star creation'
Carbon sheds light on star creation
New measurements of unstable nuclei caught in the act of decay have gone a long way towards resolving long-standing questions about the triple-alpha process that creates carbon nuclei.
Read article 'Lab rolls out the red carpet for prestigious official ceremony'
Lab rolls out the red carpet for prestigious official ceremony
Heads of state, representatives from many countries, and scientists and engineers from CERN's past, present and future research in particle physics attended the laboratory's official 50th anniversary ...
Read article 'Spin-flipping crosses the Atlantic'
Spin-flipping crosses the Atlantic
After the venerable Cooler Ring at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) passed on to accelerator heaven in autumn 2002, the polarized beam team, led by Alan Krisch, crossed the Atlantic to...
