Read article 'Magnetic fields point to high-energy rays'
New evidence for strong intergalactic magnetic fields may help to solve the mystery of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. These particles can reach energies of more than 1020 eV – 100 million times a...
Read article 'Large Magellanic Cloud X-ray signal lost in black hole'
Newton, the European Space Agency’s new X-ray observatory (April p11), was undergoing routine calibration, imaging a known, stable X-ray source in the Large Magellanic Clouds, when all of a sudd...
Read article 'LEP achieves record energy levels'
CERN's flagship accelerator, the 27 km Large Electron Positron collider (LEP), began its final year in fine style in April colliding beams at a record 104 GeV per beam, just three weeks after start-u...
Read article 'Canadian isotope source is to be upgraded'
The new Isotope Separator and Accelerator is now operational at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory, producing intense beams of short-lived, exotic nuclei.
Read article 'Straight section on full current'
The first of 420 short straight sections for CERN's LHC collider to be put on test at CERN has been successfully ramped to full current.
Read article 'Jordan is first choice for SESAME synchrotron site'
In a meeting at CERN on 10-11 April, a restricted interim council of the SESAME project selected Jordan as its first choice by a large majority and Armenia as its second choice.
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.
