Read article 'CERN Council rings the changes'
The CERN Council has formally approved the new structure for CERN, which was presented by the incoming director-general, Robert Aymar, at the Council's meeting on 19 December 2003.
Read article 'New g-2 measurement deviates further from Standard Model'
There has been considerable interest in these measurements because of the potential sensitivity to new physics such as supersymmetry, which would show up as a difference between the Standard Model val...
Read article 'Superconducting cavities exceed 35 MV/m'
This is the performance required for an upgrade of TESLA to 800 GeV.
Read article 'X marks the spot: a new particle appears in two experiments'
The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization has found a new and unusual particle.
Read article 'Canada completes its major contribution to the LHC project'
The largest piece of Canada's $41.5 million (€32.5 million) contribution to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completed in 2003 with the delivery of the last of 52 twin-aperture quadrupole magnets...
Read article 'STAR prepares to shine a light on spin'
A major milestone has been reached for the STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with the hoisting of the upper half of the endcap electromagnetic calorimeter (EEMC) int...
Read article 'PEP II gets ready for a data bonanza'
Three months into run 4 and the PEP II accelerator, the electron-positron collider at SLAC, is performing beautifully.
Read article 'Components from Iran en route for CMS'
The first of a pair of steel tables and shielding superstructures, which will house the two 110 tonne forward hadron calorimeters for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are due at ...
Read article 'New Zealand signs up to co-operate with CERN'
On 4 December 2003 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between CERN and the government of New Zealand was signed in the presence of Peter Hamilton, New Zealand's ambassador to Switzerland.
Read article 'PPARC announces research agenda for the UK'
The UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has outlined its latest research goals in its Strategic Plan for 2003-2008.
