Read article 'Aging workshop provides a useful review of the long-term use of gaseous detectors'
Aging workshop provides a useful review of the long-term use of gaseous detectors
Detectors, like people, encounter problems as they get older.
Read article 'Aging workshop provides a useful review of the long-term use of gaseous detectors'
Read article 'Channelling produces new sources of positrons'
Channelling produces new sources of positrons
For future electron-positron linear colliders, high-intensity electron and positron beams are needed.
Read article 'Arctic Circle maintains the freshness of ancient physics'
Arctic Circle maintains the freshness of ancient physics
A recent meeting underlined the continual freshness of studying the ancient history of the universe.
Read article 'Why do high-energy collisions contrive to produce so few particles most of the time?'
Why do high-energy collisions contrive to produce so few particles most of the time?
The collisions produced by the new generation of high-energy hadron machines - Fermilab's revamped Tevatron for protons on antiprotons, Brookhaven's RHIC for heavy ions and CERN's LHC for protons and...
Read article 'Antares detector deployment progress is on target for 2004'
Antares detector deployment progress is on target for 2004
The Antares undersea neutrino experiment, scheduled for deployment 2400 m down in the Mediterranean off the south coast of France, successfully laid its sea cable at the beginning of October.
Read article 'Astronomers celebrate sight of two million year old ‘baby’'
Astronomers celebrate sight of two million year old ‘baby’
A very small, faint galaxy more than 13.4 billion light-years from Earth is creating a great deal of excitement among astronomers. This protogalaxy, which is just 500 light-years across (a two-hundred...
Read article 'Noisy stars give good vibrations'
Noisy stars give good vibrations
Sound waves running through a star can help astronomers to reveal its inner properties. Alpha Centauri A is the nearest star visible to the naked eye, at a distance of a little more than four light-ye...
Read article 'Green light for massive increase in computing power for LHC data'
Green light for massive increase in computing power for LHC data
The first phase of the impressive Computing Grid project for CERN's future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was approved at a special meeting of CERN's Council, its governing body, on 20 September.
Read article 'International team breaks through to maximum light amplification'
International team breaks through to maximum light amplification
In a major boost for future plans, an international team based at DESY has achieved maximum light amplification from a free-electron laser (FEL) for ultraviolet radiation.
Read article 'History centre publishes archiving guidelines'
History centre publishes archiving guidelines
According to a recently released report by the American Institute of Physics Center for the History of Physics, the documentation of collaborative scientific research needs urgent attention.
