Read article 'ELFE: an electron machine for Europe'
As experiments at CERN using high-energy nuclear beams have shown, about one ten-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, its quarks and gluons crystallized into protons and neutrons, changing for...
Read article 'CMS changes to silicon track'
The collaboration for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's future LHC collider will base its tracker entirely on silicon sensor technology using fine feature size electronics.
Read article 'New class of gamma-ray sources is discovered'
The discovery of mysterious gamma-ray bursters in the late 1960s opened up a new chapter in astronomy. Now gamma-ray astronomy has taken another surprising turn.
Read article 'New precision result on CP violation'
The latest precision measurement of CP violation, matter-antimatter asymmetry, by the big NA48 experiment at CERN are explored in this article from 2000.
Read article 'Rutherford Appleton gains ‘Diamond’ synchrotron source'
The UK's Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury, near Manchester, is to be replaced by a new machine at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford that should be operational in 2006.
Read article 'Brookhaven and China to join forces in research'
Representatives of the National Natural Science Foundation of China visited Brookhaven to learn more about the scientific programme of Brookhaven's new RHIC heavy ion collider and to explore opport...
Read article 'Harping on about hadrons'
The Hadron Production Experiment at the CERN PS proton synchrotron is a collaboration of institutes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK as well as CERN and the JI...
Read article 'Gemini mirror goes on the road'
Particle physicists are familiar with the trials of moving large, unwieldy pieces of equipment on epic voyages around the globe. They are not alone. The 24 ton, 8.1 m mirror of the Gemini South telesc...
Read article 'Free-floating planets prove too light for dark matter'
The most sensitive search ever undertaken for small substellar objects has revealed 13 free-floating planets and more than 100 young brown dwarf stars in an active star-forming region of the Orion Neb...
Read article 'NASA to work with Stanford for major astrophysics project'
In a move that underlines the growing requirement for sophisticated hardware for precision physics experiments in space, NASA has announced an award to Stanford University for the development of the...
