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...
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).
