Read article 'LHCb receives delivery from Russia'
The LHCb collaboration, dedicated to studying CP violation in B-meson decays at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has received the first components of its calorimeter system from Russia.
Read article 'Grid technology developed by ALICE'
The ALICE experiment, which is being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, has developed the ALICE production environment.
Read article 'MiniBOONE goes live at Fermilab'
The MiniBOONE experiment at Fermilab inthe US saw its first neutrinos in September.
Read article 'HEP email news wire'
Fermilab and SLAC announced the launch of an email news wire for high-energy physics and related fields in September.
Read article 'Happy 40th birthday to ESO'
This autumn, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrates its 40th anniversary. As current ESO director Catherine Cesarsky looks back fondly on the last four decades, she remembers “one fu...
Read article 'VLT to help map the universe'
Attempting to measure the evolution of the universe requires a huge sample of objects. Observations of millions of galaxies, looking further and further back in time, are needed to make an enormous 3D...
Read article 'Turkey hosts regional instrumentation school'
The first International Committee on Future Accelerators regional instrumentation school was held in June at the new instrumentation centre at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, marking a new depa...
Read article 'LHC test-bed progresses to second phase'
A complete cell of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began tests at the laboratory in June.
Read article 'ALICE crystals arrive at CERN'
The first 500 crystals for the ALICE experiment's photon spectrometer (PHOS) arrived at CERN in May after a journey via Moscow from the town of Apatity in the Russian arctic region.
Read article 'Amsterdam hosts ICHEP conference'
"Brilliant work by many people has resulted in an extraordinarily profound, precise description of the physical world," concluded Frank Wilczek of MIT, in summarizing the 31st International Conference...
