Read article 'CERN finalizes new agreement with ISTC'
A collaboration agreement between CERN and the International Science and Technology Centre, finalized in November and worth some 12 million Swiss francs, is a large step forward in CERN-ISTC co-operat...
Read article 'Two electron guns fire at Jefferson'
Spin-oriented (polarized) electron beams are high on the agenda at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia.
Read article 'Heidelberg merger forms Kirchhoff Institute'
The former Institutes for High-Energy Physics and for Applied Physics at the University of Heidelberg have recently joined forces to become the new Kirchhoff Institute for Physics.
Read article 'Neural computation points the way'
Neural computation - analysing data by simulating the way the brain works - is another area of application where high-energy physics is in the vanguard of development.
Read article 'Majorana mass limit reaches an all-time low'
In normal beta decay, a nuclear neutron transforms into a proton by emitting a neutrino. A far more exotic possibility is two successive beta decays, in which the neutrino emitted in the first decay w...
Read article 'Alcatel merges with AHTS'
Alcatel has signed the final agreement to take control of the superconductivity activities of Aventis Research & Technologies, a subsidiary of Hoechst.
Read article 'ATLAS solenoid coiling is complete'
The coil winding for the central solenoid magnet of the forthcoming ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has been completed.
Read article 'Avalanche photodiodes come of age'
In the search for optimal performance under difficult conditions, experiments for CERN's LHC are exploiting new technologies.
Read article 'Novel X-rays detected at Jefferson'
In a recent experiment, Thomson-scattered X-rays from Jefferson Lab's infrared free-electron laser were detected, confirmed and initially characterized.
Read article 'HAPPEX probes ‘sea’ of nucleon strangeness'
The proton is not strange. This is the conclusion drawn from the initial results of an experiment at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia, which cast new light on the deep interior of nucl...
