Read article 'KEK laboratory demonstrates fixed-field synchrotron'
The Japanese KEK laboratory has for the first time demonstrated an alternative method of accelerating protons to high energy - the fixed-field, alternating gradient (FFAG) synchrotron.
Read article 'Workshop tackles GLOBUS and Grid'
The Grid, a highly distributed computing environment that is seen by many as a step beyond the World Wide Web, is catalysing many new computing developments.
Read article 'ATLAS presents a quality challenge'
Covering a volume of 17 000 metres cubic, the muon system of the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will be one of the largest particle detector systems ever built.
Read article 'Astronomy sets new targets'
Recent years have seen a transformation of many areas of astronomy. New instrumentation makes arcsecond resolution almost commonplace across the whole electromagnetic spectrum, where previously it was...
Read article 'CP asymmetry moves to new setting'
The year 2000 sees the debut of a new kind of precision physics. It formally began with the opening plenary talks at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, the biennial particle physic...
Read article 'DONUT comes to neutrino town'
A neutrino experiment at Fermilab has seen the first direct evidence for the tau neutrino, the most elusive of the 12 particles that make up the Standard Model picture of the fundamental structure o...
Read article 'Energen has a winning plan'
Energen of Billerica, Massachusetts, has been selected as winner of the WPI Venture Forum's 7th Annual Business Plan Contest.
Read article 'Synthetic neutrinos appear to disappear'
Announced at the recent Neutrino 2000 meeting in Sudbury, Canada, were the first results from the K2K long-distance neutrino beam experiment in Japan. For the first time, synthetic neutrinos made in...
Read article 'Antiprotons come with all the trappings'
Now coming into action for physics is CERN's new Antiproton Decelerator, opening another chapter of CERN's tradition of physics with antiprotons.
Read article 'Extreme cryogenics keeps LHC cool'
When it comes into operation in 2005, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which will use thousands of superconducting magnets operating at superfluid helium temperatures, will also be the largest cryogeni...
