Read article 'MINOS project gets going on the far side'
On 14 August, after four years of mining, construction and testing, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) collaboration announced the start-up of its 5400 tonne neutrino detector in th...
Read article 'The LCG gets started…'
This summer the IT division at CERN was a hive of activity as dozens of young software engineers worked round the clock to launch the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Computing Grid (LCG) into its first ph...
Read article 'Looking back to the cosmic renaissance'
Six of the most distant galaxies ever seen have been discovered in a small area of the sky less than five per cent the size of the full Moon. Located approximately 12,600 million light-years away, we ...
Read article 'Four labs find five-quark particle'
Four international collaborations have recently announced strong experimental evidence for a five-quark exotic baryon named the theta-plus, composed of two up quarks, two down quarks and a strange ant...
Read article 'Gran Sasso puts its troubles in order'
After a difficult year, it seems that an air of optimism is back in the INFN laboratories at Gran Sasso.
Read article 'JLab’s upgraded FEL produces first light'
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) have produced first light from their 10 kW free-electron laser (FEL).
Read article 'Bochum breaks deuteron polarization records'
During the past 10 years, polarized solid targets have been successfully used at CERN and SLAC to investigate the spin structure of the nucleon.
Read article 'CERN offers grants to young Asian postgraduates'
Within the framework of the CERN-Asia Fellows and Associates Programme, CERN offers three grants every year to young East, Southeast and South Asia postgraduates under the age of 33, enabling them to ...
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.
