Read article 'School returns to Switzerland'
School returns to Switzerland
For the first time since its inception nearly 40 years ago, the European School of High-Energy Physics was held in Switzerland at Beatenberg in the Bernese Oberland.
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Read article 'Quaero makes particle detector datasets available for all'
Quaero makes particle detector datasets available for all
A major step towards "transparent" particle physics has come from a new scheme that opens up data collected by the D0 experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider.
Read article 'Table-top device makes crystalline beams'
Table-top device makes crystalline beams
A model set up at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University has for the first time achieved a high level of “crystallization” of particle beams in a ring. The particles orbiting in conv...
Read article 'Observers decipher more primordial helium to unravel the history of the early universe'
Observers decipher more primordial helium to unravel the history of the early universe
Observations of helium give new clues as to how matter evolved in the early universe. The primordial helium gas left over from the Big Bang is spread thinly through space between galaxies. NASA’...
Read article 'Observations link gamma-ray bursts to black hole formation'
Observations link gamma-ray bursts to black hole formation
Over recent years, astronomers have detected numerous short, intense bursts of gamma rays coming from all over the sky. For a brief instant, these flashes of radiation are more energetic than anything...
Read article 'NASA MAPs the microwave background'
NASA MAPs the microwave background
NASA launched its Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) this summer. The experiment will measure the cosmic microwave background to one part in a million, with a sensitivity that is greater than 20 µK...
Read article 'Getting up to speed in the year AD 2'
Getting up to speed in the year AD 2
After coming into operation last year, CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) has got up to speed for physics this year.
Read article 'New double-ring design for Chinese machine will be more competitive'
New double-ring design for Chinese machine will be more competitive
A second ring is now being planned for the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP).
Read article 'Language was no barrier at Budapest conference'
Language was no barrier at Budapest conference
This year's venue for the European Physical Society's biennial Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics was the new campus of Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary.
Read article 'RHIC collider running at full collision energy'
RHIC collider running at full collision energy
The 4 km circumference Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven Laboratory is now running at its full design nucleon collision energy of 200 GeV and physics expectations are high.
