Read article 'HERA II puts collisions in a spin'
HERA II puts collisions in a spin
This is a first not only for DESY, the laboratory that is home to HERA, but also for the world.
Read article 'HERA II puts collisions in a spin'
Read article 'German government pronounces on TESLA projects'
German government pronounces on TESLA projects
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research gave the go-ahead on 5 February for the TESLA X-ray laser to be built at DESY as a European project.
Read article 'The curtain goes up on OPERA'
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'
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'
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'
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…'
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'
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'
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'
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...
