Read article 'Superconducting dipole magnet consortium'
Two of the initial firms supplying superconducting dipole magnets for CERN's LHC proton collider Noell of Würzburg, Germany, and Ansaldo of Genoa, Italy have joined forces.
Read article 'Model magnet for CERN’s LHC reaches 250 T/m in Japan'
Special superconducting quadrupole magnets for squeezing the beams at CERN's LHC collider have been successfully developed at the Japanese KEK laboratory as part of the LHC co-operation programme betw...
Read article 'Tantalum detector'
A new development in detector technology is good news for astronomers.
Read article 'Astrowatch'
ESO update The first 8.2 m telescope of the Very Large Telescope array opens to astronomers on 1 April. It has already made interesting discoveries during its commisioning stage. Observations of one o...
Read article 'Michael Witherell to direct Fermilab'
Michael Witherell, from the the University of California, Santa Barbara, will succeed John Peoples as director of Fermilab on 1 July. The search for a new Fermilab director began last year, when John ...
Read article 'CP violation gets clearer'
New data from the KTeV experiment at Fermilab blow away some of the fog around the mystery of CP violation and underline the effects suggested by earlier results from CERN.
Read article 'HERA strikes it RICHER'
The article "HERA strikes it RICH" in the November 1998 issue described the first rings seen in the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) being commissioned for the HERA-B experiment at the HERA electronpro...
Read article 'Another way to get RICH'
A prototype detector for the ALICE experiment at CERN's LHC collider will be installed in the STAR detector at Brookhaven's RHIC heavy ion collider, scheduled to come into action this year.
Read article 'Pakistan creates national centre for physics'
To promote research in physics and strengthen university capability in Pakistan, a National Centre for Physics has been established at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
Read article 'Symmetry violation in a new setting'
The CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron protonantiproton collider has produced heroic new evidence for the violation of "CP" symmetry, a hypothetical operation which takes a particle into a mirro...
