Read article 'Astrowatch'
Gamma-ray bursts The most powerful objects in the universe are also the most mysterious. Gamma-ray bursts can emit more energy in a few seconds than all of the 1011 stars in our galaxy emit over a few...
Read article 'Michael Witherell to direct Fermilab'
Michael Witherell, from the the University of California, Santa Barbara, will succeed John Peoples as director of Fermilab on 1 July. The search for a new Fermilab director began last year, when John ...
Read article 'CP violation gets clearer'
New data from the KTeV experiment at Fermilab blow away some of the fog around the mystery of CP violation and underline the effects suggested by earlier results from CERN.
Read article 'HERA strikes it RICHER'
The article "HERA strikes it RICH" in the November 1998 issue described the first rings seen in the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) being commissioned for the HERA-B experiment at the HERA electronpro...
Read article 'Another way to get RICH'
A prototype detector for the ALICE experiment at CERN's LHC collider will be installed in the STAR detector at Brookhaven's RHIC heavy ion collider, scheduled to come into action this year.
Read article 'Historic hardware'
Article reporting the exhibition of hardware used to detect the W and Z particles in the microcosm exhibition.
Read article 'Roman pots for the LHC'
The "Roman pot" technique has become a time-honoured particle physics approach each time a new energy frontier is opened up, and CERN's LHC proton collider, which can attain collision energies of 14 T...
Read article 'Superconducting dipole magnet consortium'
Two of the initial firms supplying superconducting dipole magnets for CERN's LHC proton collider Noell of Würzburg, Germany, and Ansaldo of Genoa, Italy have joined forces.
Read article 'Model magnet for CERN’s LHC reaches 250 T/m in Japan'
Special superconducting quadrupole magnets for squeezing the beams at CERN's LHC collider have been successfully developed at the Japanese KEK laboratory as part of the LHC co-operation programme betw...
Read article 'Tantalum detector'
A new development in detector technology is good news for astronomers.
