Read article 'The curtain goes up on OPERA'
The first module for the target tracker for OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) was centre stage at the Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS) in Strasbourg in January, wh...
Read article 'Doubly doped semiconductor makes a fast scintillator'
At cryogenic temperatures some semiconductors can convert ionizing radiation into visible light with high efficiency and speed.
Read article 'Laboratories link up to win Internet land speed record'
The transfer of data equivalent to two feature-length movies on DVD between California and Amsterdam in less than one second has been recognized as a new record by the Internet2 consortium.
Read article 'China agrees upgrade of its particle collider'
On 10 February, the Chinese government approved the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider Upgrading Program (BEPCII), finally making the long expectation of the Chinese high-energy physics community a re...
Read article 'Microwaves map the early universe in detail…'
The eagerly awaited first full-sky map from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has been released by NASA. The satellite, which has been observing the cosmic microwave background radiation...
Read article 'LHC magnets pass two milestones'
The new year at CERN has seen good news for two types of magnet that will be essential to focusing beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read article 'LCLS gets funding as TESLA wins support'
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), which passed the US Department of Energy's "Critical Decision 1" process in October 2002, has been allo...
Read article 'Novel CLIC accelerating structure achieves 195 MV/m'
The nominal parameters for the compact linear collider (CLIC) foresee acceleration of the electron and positron bunches to an energy of 1.5 TeV by 30 GHz normal-conducting accelerating structures oper...
Read article 'CERN hosts first meeting of Quarkonium Working Group'
The first workshop of the recently founded Quarkonium Working Group (QWG) took place at CERN on 8-10 November 2002, nearly 30 years after the observation of charmonium - the first of the heavy quarkon...
Read article 'KamLAND experiment discovers that reactor antineutrinos ‘disappear’'
The first results from six months of data-taking by the KamLAND experiment in Japan indicate that electron antineutrinos from distant nuclear reactors are "disappearing" on their way to the detector.
