Read article 'INTEGRAL discovers hidden black holes'
INTEGRAL, the powerful gamma-ray space telescope, has discovered what seems to be a new class of astronomical objects. These are binary systems, probably including a black hole or a neutron star, embe...
Read article 'Superconductivity links physics and medicine'
The 2003 Nobel prizes in physics and physiology or medicine both have connections with the field of particle physics.
Read article 'SNO gets results with a large pinch of salt'
New results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) are beginning to pin down more precisely the parameters for mixing between different types of neutrino.
Read article 'Laser ion source heads for new life'
On 22 August the last of three Russian trucks left CERN for Moscow carrying, as a long-term loan, a laser ion source in 93 boxes with a total volume of 150 cubic meters and a weight of 42 tonnes.
Read article 'A heavy load arrives for ALICE'
On 25 September the two large coils for the ALICE dipole magnet arrived at Point 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after a 1200 km journey from their manufacturer.
Read article 'Narrow states abound at HADRON 2003'
Aschaffenburg, a medieval town near Frankfurt in Germany, was the attractive setting for the 10th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, held from 31 August to 6 September.
Read article 'Evidence for spinning black holes in our galaxy'
Do all black holes spin? How fast do they spin? The most detailed studies of stellar black holes to date by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton sate...
Read article 'Industry delivers LHC dipole coils'
An important milestone has been passed in the manufacture of the magnets for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read article 'SLAC makes world’s shortest bunches'
Using the full length of the linear accelerator, as well as loops and bends in the beam, and the usually troublesome effect of the wakefield, SLAC has made the world's shortest bunches of electrons - ...
Read article 'Germanium crystals measure position'
Germanium crystals have long been used to study photons with energies from 50 keV to 10 MeV. Their excellent energy resolution (approaching 0.1%) has created numerous applications in nuclear and parti...
