Read article 'LEP achieves its first century'
On 2 August, a decade after the initial commissioning at 45 GeV per beam, CERN's LEP storage ring has collided 100 GeV beams of electrons and positrons, giving a total energy of 200 GeV.
Read article 'RHIC gold particles complete lap of ring'
On 16 July, a beam of gold nuclei circulated one of the two rings of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider for the first time.
Read article 'Beijing tests complete precision measurement'
The BES II spectrometer at the Beijing electronpositron collider (BEPC) has completed a measurement of hadron production rates over the 25 GeV energy range which is valuable input for Standard Mod...
Read article 'Management practice for the global village'
Through the Scandinavian CoDisCo project, CERN is helping to define management practice for large-scale distributed projects.
Read article 'PANIC99 conference in Uppsala'
A regular feature of the nuclear physics scene is the Particles and Nuclei International Conference, which was held in Uppsala, Sweden on 10-16 June.
Read article 'Electrons and nuclei meet at HERA'
The HERA collider at DESY, Hamburg, has been operating with proton and electron (or positron) beams since it was commissioned in 1991.
Read article 'A decade celebrated at Dubna'
The Laboratory of Particle Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Read article 'Physicists study photon structure'
Almost a century after Einstein introduced the idea of a quantum of light, the photon continues to be a rich field of physics.
Read article 'From Russia with load'
Arriving at CERN from Novosibirsk's Budker Institute are magnets for the two transfer lines to feed the LHC collider with protons from the SPS proton synchrotron.
Read article 'Chandra blasts off'
An X-ray equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray observatory, was launched on 23 July. Astronomers look forward to a new view of the violent universe with the highest-quality image...
