Read article 'BES collaboration observes new narrow state'
The BES collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) has observed a clear signal for a narrow enhancement in the ppbar mass distribution near the 2mp threshold in the process J/Ψ→...
Read article 'Test stand for RF couplers inaugurated at Orsay'
A new test stand for radio-frequency (RF) couplers is operating at the French Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL, CNRS/IN2P3) in Orsay.
Read article 'Laser spectroscopy tests for inconstant constants'
Recent astrophysical measurements of distant quasar spectra indicate that the fundamental constants may be changing with time.
Read article 'Gamma-ray burst supports hypernova hypothesis'
After decades of speculation on the nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the very bright event known as GRB030329 is finally unveiling their origin.
Read article 'ATLAS cavern ready for its detector'
The ATLAS cavern has become the first new experimental cavern for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be handed over to CERN by civil-engineering contractors.
Read article 'CERN confirms LHC start-up in 2007'
On 20 June, in its 125th session, the CERN Council received confirmation that the LHC and its detectors are on schedule for start-up in 2007, and that the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project is about to ...
Read article 'KEKB scales peak in luminosity'
This accomplishment will boost KEK's programme of investigating CP violation and searching for beyond-the-Standard-Model effects in the Bbar-B system.
Read article 'Brilliant future for PETRA III'
DESY is to convert its storage ring PETRA into one of the most modern third-generation X-ray sources in the world.
Read article 'CERN establishes formal links with SESAME'
A memorandum of understanding that provides for co-operation between the new international centre for Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), CERN and ...
Read article 'CLEO discovers second DsJ particle'
In the simplest interpretation of these results both particles are excited bound states of a charm quark, c, and a strange antiquark, sbar.
