Read article 'CERN computing wins top award'
This prestigious award was made to CERN for its innovative application of information technology to the benefit of society, and it followed the laboratory's nomination by Lawrence Ellison, chairman an...
Read article 'Magnets become more compact'
A new development in Japan that enables powerful magnetic fields to be obtained without using expensive electromagnets could open the door to smaller, special-purpose particle accelerator installation...
Read article 'Last LHC magnets from Siberia reach CERN'
The delivery of Russian magnets to equip transfer lines to feed CERN's new LHC collider is now complete.
Read article 'Latin-American school marks start of a new collaboration for CERN'
The first school of high-energy physics organized jointly by CERN and CLAF (Centro latinoamericano de física), Rio de Janeiro was held in Itacuruçá, Brazil on 6-19 May and it hopefully marked the o...
Read article 'Crystals put spin on particle beam action'
New investigations being made into the behaviour of charged particle beams as they pass through crystals suggest that the very high electric fields inside these crystals could be used to orient the sp...
Read article 'CP violation is measured precisely'
The problem of obtaining a precise measurement of one of the most elusive effects in particle physics has finally been overcome.
Read article 'Proposed SPL machine could help provide neutrino beams'
The imaginations of physicists all over the world have been fired by the quest for new schemes for making intense beams of neutrinos.
Read article 'Neutron Time of Flight facility takes off smoothly at CERN'
There was a new arrival among CERN's family of particle beams when the laboratory's first intense beam of neutrons was produced at the new neutron Time Of Flight facility.
Read article 'ISOLDE tests the Standard Model'
Tests of the Standard Model of particle physics are largely the domain of high-energy particle accelerators.
Read article 'KEK prize encourages innovation'
The KEK high-energy physics laboratory in Japan has established a new prize – the KEK Technology prize – to encourage its engineers to tackle technical challenges. The first winners were...
