Read article 'DESY and SLAC agree to collaborate on X-ray free-electron laser development'
The directors of the two laboratories signed a memorandum of understanding describing the exchange of personnel, equipment, research results and data.
Read article 'Superkamiokande resumes operation'
Just over a year ago, an accident at the Superkamiokande detector in Japan brought neutrino experiments there to a temporary conclusion.
Read article 'J-PARC project is inaugurated'
This is a joint project between KEK and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Read article '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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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...
