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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.

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.

BES accumulates 14 million y(2S) events

This year, the Beijing Spectrometer (BES) experiment running at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) completed a run at the energy of the y(2S) resonance.

CMS assembly enters its next phase

Assembly of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, being built for physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, reached an important turning point in October.

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Extra funding for Perimeter Institute

Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics was awarded C$25 million (€16 million) by the Canadian Federal government at a groundbreaking ceremony in June. Soon after, the province of...

CERN hosts First Tuesday meeting

Some 250 people came to CERN to learn about the latest developments in Grid computing technology.

Young physicists attend CERN accelerator school in Portugal

Young accelerator physicists converged on the Portuguese coastal town of Sesimbra in September for the 2002 CERN Accelerator School (CAS) introductory course on particle accelerators.

DASI measures CMB polarization

The Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI) has announced the first measurements of the polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation.

Cold antiatoms produced at CERN

Physicists working at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) have announced the first controlled production of large numbers of antihydrogen atoms at low energies.