First test beams are delivered for the LHC
The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
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The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
A new class of extremely large telescope is on the drawing board. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is funding a feasibility study for a ground-based, fully steerable, 100 m optical telescope ch...
New pulsar observations could lead to a drastic reappraisal of pulsar ages and evolution. Pulsars, which “blink” regularly like powerful cosmic lighthouses in the depths of galaxies, are u...
A new generation of X-ray observatories is under way to study the hottest parts of the observable universe. Among them the European Space Agency's X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM - now named XMM-New...
According to our increasing understanding of quark physics, more kinds of particle should exist than are currently known. New experiments at the Jefferson Laboratory are setting out to search for th...
The recent European Particle Accelerator Conference in Vienna underlined how far and wide particle accelerators have infiltrated into science and technology. Colin Johnson reports.
On Monday 12 June a new high-energy machine made its stage debut as operators in the main control room of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) finally declared victory over their stu...
After several months of negotiations, the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has announced the establishment of an Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University.
Imagine trying to record a symphony in a second. That is effectively what CERN's ALICE collaboration will have to do when the laboratory's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts up in 2005.
As part of the recent UK Institute of Physics conference, Particle Physics 2000, in Edinburgh, a special symposium was held to celebrate the 70th year of Peter Higgs, after whom the elusive "Higgs ...