Read article 'RHIC begins smashing nuclei'
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...
Read article 'UK phenomenology centre is created'
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.
Read article 'Meeting the ALICE data challenge'
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.
Read article 'Higgs is honoured in Edinburgh'
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 ...
Read article 'CMS contractors receive LHC collaboration awards'
Three contractors involved in CERN's forthcoming CM experiment's magnet project became the first beneficiaries of the collaboration's new awards scheme on 5 June.
Read article 'CERN and Pakistan strengthen agreement'
Signed in Islamabad in May was an addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding between CERN and Pakistan, covering increased Pakistani involvement in the CMS experiment for CERN's LHC collider.
Read article 'Czech physics scene is growing'
Particle physics in the Czech Republic is maturing fast.
Read article 'Antiprotons spring surprises'
Experiments at CERN's low-energy antiproton ring (LEAR), closed in 1996, brought many very-high-precision and sometimes surprising antiproton results.
Read article 'Celebrating the centenary of a conscience'
Wolfgang Pauli, the "conscience of physics" was born in Vienna on 25 April 1900.
Read article 'Youngest radio galaxies observed'
A new class of baby radio galaxy has been discovered using very long baseline interferometry. The sources, dubbed compact symmetric objects, are the youngest radio galaxies ever observed – a mer...
