Read article 'KEK solenoid passes full power test'
On 26 December 2000 the Japanese KEK laboratory accomplished full powering of the superconducting solenoid magnet for the forthcoming giant ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC collider.
Read article 'EC to fund project for faster optical detectors'
The project, known as "Impecable", will fund the development of more efficient and faster optical detectors by the newly formed consortium, leading to their subsequent production by Photek and Electr...
Read article 'Awards highlight top suppliers'
The CMS and ATLAS collaborations currently building experiments for CERN's LHC collider have recently been handing out their very own Oscars to their most meritorious suppliers.
Read article 'STAR detector gets new silicon heart'
Recently Brookhaven's RHIC achieved another major milestone with the insertion of the Silicon Vertex Tracker into the heart of the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC detector.
Read article 'Making Tevatron magnets'
A new magnetic system for Fermilab's Tevatron collider has been designed and built in a collaboration between Fermilab and the Institute for High-Energy Physics in Protvino, near Moscow.
Read article 'Keck heralds a new era for optical astronomy'
On the night of 12 March, the Keck interferometer in Hawaii began operations. It is currently the largest optical telescope in the world, with a resolution equivalent to that of a single telescope wit...
Read article 'Black hole survey'
NASA has chosen the first six science projects for its Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTEF). By far the biggest chunk of observing time will go to the Black Holes and Galaxies project – an...
Read article 'Microeffect in muon magnetism'
A new precision measurement of the muon's magnetism during an experiment at Brookhaven has shown a tiny unexplained discrepancy.
Read article 'How CP violation came to B'
Two major new experiments have provided the first strong indications of the delicate CP violation effect in a totally new domain - the decays of B mesons (containing the fifth or "b" quark).
Read article 'Solar telescope CASTs the net for solar axions'
The CERN Solar Axion Telescope, CAST, aims to shed light on a 30-year-old riddle of particle physics by detecting axions originating from the 15 million degree plasma in the Sun's core.
