Read article 'MINOS to explore neutrino mass'
Deep in a former Minnesota iron mine, scientists and government officials recently wielded pickaxes to chip away, at least symbolically, at the mysteries surrounding the subatomic particles known as n...
Read article 'Lepton-photon symposium at Stanford'
The major international focus of high-energy physics in odd-numbered years is the International Symposium on LeptonPhoton Interactions at High Energies, which took place this year on 9-14 August at ...
Read article 'First beams of nuclei circulate rings at Brookhaven’s RHIC'
During August, work continued to establish circulating beams of nuclei in the two rings of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Read article 'KEK: initial B for BELLE'
On 1 June, after five years of planning and five years of construction, the BELLE detector recorded its first B meson events at the KEKB electronpositron B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan. During this fir...
Read article 'NA48 measures direct CP violation'
With a first result announced from a major experiment at CERN, 1999 looks like being a vintage year for the measurement of CP violation the effect that enables nature to differentiate between matte...
Read article 'Jefferson free-electron laser exceeds kilowatt'
On 15 July in Newport News, Virginia, Jefferson Lab's free-electron laser produced infrared light at a wavelength of 3.1µm and 1.72 kW average power, thereby exceeding the kilowatt design goal.
Read article 'LEP achieves its first century'
On 2 August, a decade after the initial commissioning at 45 GeV per beam, CERN's LEP storage ring has collided 100 GeV beams of electrons and positrons, giving a total energy of 200 GeV.
Read article 'RHIC gold particles complete lap of ring'
On 16 July, a beam of gold nuclei circulated one of the two rings of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider for the first time.
Read article 'Beijing tests complete precision measurement'
The BES II spectrometer at the Beijing electronpositron collider (BEPC) has completed a measurement of hadron production rates over the 25 GeV energy range which is valuable input for Standard Mod...
Read article 'Management practice for the global village'
Through the Scandinavian CoDisCo project, CERN is helping to define management practice for large-scale distributed projects.
