Read article 'J-PARC project is inaugurated'
J-PARC project is inaugurated
This is a joint project between KEK and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Read article 'J-PARC project is inaugurated'
Read article 'LANL develops bespoke cavities for low-energy applications'
LANL develops bespoke cavities for low-energy applications
Superconducting (SC) RF cavities are becoming common in accelerators for high-energy and nuclear physics, and the technologies needed to obtain high fields and high-quality factors in elliptical cavit...
Read article 'Canadians set record for long-distance data transfer'
Canadians set record for long-distance data transfer
A Canadian team has succeeded in transferring 1 TByte of data over a newly established "lightpath" extending 12,000 km from TRIUMF in Vancouver to CERN in Geneva in under 4 h - a new record rate of 70...
Read article 'Karlsruhe Grid computing centre is inaugurated'
Karlsruhe Grid computing centre is inaugurated
To cope with the computational requirements of the LHC experiments, a worldwide virtual computing centre is being developed - a global computational grid of tens of thousands of computers and storage ...
Read article 'UK boosts technology transfer support'
UK boosts technology transfer support
During the past year, the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has begun an innovative approach to strengthening technology transfer with CERN.
Read article 'Gravitational lens sheds light on dark energy'
Gravitational lens sheds light on dark energy
Observations of radio emission from distant quasars have given new weight to the theory of dark energy – a kind of vacuum energy density that changes the acceleration of the universe. Quasars ar...
Read article 'Cosmic accelerator reveals hot spots'
Cosmic accelerator reveals hot spots
Radio galaxies are characterized by enormous jets, up to millions of light-years across, shooting out charged particles at up to almost the speed of light. Bright spots of emission are seen at the end...
Read article 'JINR Information and Biographical Guide'
JINR Information and Biographical Guide
For readers of Russian, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna has just produced the second issue of its Information and Biographical Guide. Including 680 short biographical summarie...
Read article 'ATRAP looks inside antihydrogen'
ATRAP looks inside antihydrogen
Relying on ionization of the cold antiatoms when they pass through a strong electric field gradient, the ATRAP measurement provides the first glimpse inside an antiatom.
Read article 'RHIC limbers up for a new heavy-ion run'
RHIC limbers up for a new heavy-ion run
Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) began its cool-down on 1 November ready for the first injection of beam in December.
