Read article 'New prospects for the Dubna Nuclotron'
A new beam-extraction system considerably extends the capabilities of the unique Nuclotron accelerator at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna near Moscow.
Read article 'Brookhaven detector goes to Fermilab'
Both D0 and the Tevatron are currently undergoing major upgrades prior to the next run, which is set for March 2001.
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...
