Read article 'B-factories give first results: PEP-II at SLAC…'
The PEP-II asymmetric B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) continues to exceed expectations, having nearly reached its design performance after only a year of operations.
Read article '…and Belle at KEKB, Japan'
The Belle experiment at the KEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron B-meson factory recently completed a successful first year of operation.
Read article 'Summer students benefit from CERN visit'
CERN always has plenty of visitors, but never more so than in the summer, when the itinerant population is boosted by several hundred students from CERN member states and further afield.
Read article 'LEP hints at Higgs effect'
After commencing 2000 operations in fine style, CERN's flagship machine, the LEP electron-positron collider, has been regularly delivering experiments with beams of 103 GeV or more.
Read article 'Accelerator schools set sail'
Every two years, Europe, Japan, Russia and the US collaborate to organize a Joint Accelerator School, giving accelerator physicists and engineers from each region an opportunity to meet experts from...
Read article 'CEBAF reaches 150% of its design energy'
Jefferson Laboratory's CEBAF accelerator, which was originally designed to provide 4 GeV continuous-wave electron beams, has demonstrated 6 GeV continuous-wave operation.
Read article 'Enter the quasiparticle trapping transistor'
A new device that can operate in close proximity to highly sensitive superconducting sensors could open up new detector possibilities.
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.
