Read article 'Assembly of CMS magnet begins'
The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet for the CMS experiment at CERN's LHC collider recently took an important step towards completion when the first ring of its barrel yoke was ass...
Read article 'Experiments rechart the Big Bang'
In the beginning there were quarks and gluons the "quarkgluon plasma". Density and temperature decreased as the universe expanded and cooled.
Read article 'ECRIS feeds transuranic nuclei experiments'
These exotica nuclei are produced by bombarding a suitable nuclear target with a high-energy beam of specially prepared nuclei and studying the resulting decay chains in a suitable detector.
Read article 'The Gigabyte System Network is demonstrated at CERN'
To mark the major international Telecom '99 exhibition in Geneva, CERN staged a demonstration of the world's fastest computer networking standard, the Gigabyte System Network.
Read article 'Latest news from the early universe'
This month the first elements of the Very Small Array will be installed on Mount Teide in Tenerife. This is one of a number of new projects studying the cosmic microwave background.
Read article 'Astrowatch'
New study of distant quasars Subaru, Japan’s new 8.3 m telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii (CERN Courier March), is being used for a new study of gravitationally lensed quasars. A luminosity of mor...
Read article 'WASA meson detector inaugurated'
During the recent PANIC99 particle/nuclear physics conference, CELSIUS/WASA, a new detector facility for the CELSIUS cooler storage ring, was inaugurated.
Read article 'ISAC achieves 10 µA'
The new isotope separator and accelerator facility at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory passed a milestone on 28 July when the proton current on target was raised to 10 µA, making it the highest intensi...
Read article 'Cosmology not constant'
A simulation of the evolution of the universe suggests that it is expanding at an accelerating rate. This is more evidence for the existence of Einstein’s cosmological constant a kind of ...
Read article 'Astrowatch'
Millennium ‘delayed’ by space mission to Saturn Hold the champagne! Millennium celebrations throughout the world will be delayed. The culprit is the Cassini-Huygens space mission, which fl...
