Non-X-ray news: UK is set to join ESO
On 1 July the UK will become the tenth member state of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The other member states are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden ...
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On 1 July the UK will become the tenth member state of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The other member states are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden ...
The technical systems for CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reached an important milestone earlier this year with the successful commissioning of String 2 - a chain of prototype LHC magn...
On 12 November, thousands of photomultipliers imploded in the huge Superkamiokande detector in Japan, which has produced important results on neutrino physics.
While plans to update the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and the Beijing Spectro-meter (BESII) experiment go ahead, the BES experiment has completed its second highly successful run at t...
Although CERN's LEP electron-positron collider finished operating in November 2000, analysis of the enormous amount of data it produced will continue for some time.
Transition radiation is playing an increasingly important role in the armoury of detection techniques for particle physics.
Detectors, like people, encounter problems as they get older.
For future electron-positron linear colliders, high-intensity electron and positron beams are needed.
A recent meeting underlined the continual freshness of studying the ancient history of the universe.
The collisions produced by the new generation of high-energy hadron machines - Fermilab's revamped Tevatron for protons on antiprotons, Brookhaven's RHIC for heavy ions and CERN's LHC for protons and...