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.
Read article 'Laser spectroscopy tests for inconstant constants'
Recent astrophysical measurements of distant quasar spectra indicate that the fundamental constants may be changing with time.
Read article 'Gamma-ray burst supports hypernova hypothesis'
After decades of speculation on the nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the very bright event known as GRB030329 is finally unveiling their origin.
Read article 'ATLAS cavern ready for its detector'
The ATLAS cavern has become the first new experimental cavern for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be handed over to CERN by civil-engineering contractors.
Read article 'CERN confirms LHC start-up in 2007'
On 20 June, in its 125th session, the CERN Council received confirmation that the LHC and its detectors are on schedule for start-up in 2007, and that the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project is about to ...
Read article 'KEKB scales peak in luminosity'
This accomplishment will boost KEK's programme of investigating CP violation and searching for beyond-the-Standard-Model effects in the Bbar-B system.
Read article 'Brilliant future for PETRA III'
DESY is to convert its storage ring PETRA into one of the most modern third-generation X-ray sources in the world.
