Read article 'Subpanel recommends a collision course'
Subpanel recommends a collision course
This facility is the next major step in the field and should be designed, built and operated as a fully international effort.
Read article 'Subpanel recommends a collision course'
Read article 'Accident at major detector in Japan'
Accident at major detector in Japan
The extent of the damage suggested some kind of chain reaction in the tubes, with one implosion setting off the next. It happened as the detector was being refilled with water after routine maintena...
Read article 'Experiment reveals neutrino surprise'
Experiment reveals neutrino surprise
The measurements gave a value for an electroweak parameter that was three standard deviations higher than predicted by the Standard Model.
Read article 'X-rays come under the spotlight'
X-rays come under the spotlight
In 1999 two new X-ray satellites were launched – Chandra and XMM-Newton. Here we mark a few of their discoveries and show some of the X-ray images that are now available to astronomers. For the ...
Read article 'Non-X-ray news: UK is set to join ESO'
Non-X-ray news: UK is set to join ESO
On 1 July the UK will become the tenth member state of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The other member states are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden ...
Read article 'Going into the cold: LHC systems reach an important milestone'
Going into the cold: LHC systems reach an important milestone
The technical systems for CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reached an important milestone earlier this year with the successful commissioning of String 2 - a chain of prototype LHC magn...
Read article 'Accident ruins major detector'
Accident ruins major detector
On 12 November, thousands of photomultipliers imploded in the huge Superkamiokande detector in Japan, which has produced important results on neutrino physics.
Read article 'BES accumulates 51 million J/psi events'
BES accumulates 51 million J/psi events
While plans to update the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and the Beijing Spectro-meter (BESII) experiment go ahead, the BES experiment has completed its second highly successful run at t...
Read article 'DELPHI goes home to Delphi'
DELPHI goes home to Delphi
Although CERN's LEP electron-positron collider finished operating in November 2000, analysis of the enormous amount of data it produced will continue for some time.
Read article 'Specialists re-evaluate transition radiation'
Specialists re-evaluate transition radiation
Transition radiation is playing an increasingly important role in the armoury of detection techniques for particle physics.
