Read article 'CP violation gets clearer'
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.
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Read article 'HERA strikes it RICHER'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
Tantalum detector
A new development in detector technology is good news for astronomers.
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Astrowatch
ESO update The first 8.2 m telescope of the Very Large Telescope array opens to astronomers on 1 April. It has already made interesting discoveries during its commisioning stage. Observations of one o...
Read article 'Pakistan creates national centre for physics'
Pakistan creates national centre for physics
To promote research in physics and strengthen university capability in Pakistan, a National Centre for Physics has been established at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
