Read article 'Straight section on full current'
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.
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Read article 'Jordan is first choice for SESAME synchrotron site'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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.
Read article 'New class of gamma-ray sources is discovered'
New class of gamma-ray sources is discovered
The discovery of mysterious gamma-ray bursters in the late 1960s opened up a new chapter in astronomy. Now gamma-ray astronomy has taken another surprising turn.
Read article 'New precision result on CP violation'
New precision result on CP violation
The latest precision measurement of CP violation, matter-antimatter asymmetry, by the big NA48 experiment at CERN are explored in this article from 2000.
Read article 'Rutherford Appleton gains ‘Diamond’ synchrotron source'
Rutherford Appleton gains ‘Diamond’ synchrotron source
The UK's Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury, near Manchester, is to be replaced by a new machine at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford that should be operational in 2006.
Read article 'Brookhaven and China to join forces in research'
Brookhaven and China to join forces in research
Representatives of the National Natural Science Foundation of China visited Brookhaven to learn more about the scientific programme of Brookhaven's new RHIC heavy ion collider and to explore opport...
