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.
Read article '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'
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.
Read article 'Symmetry violation in a new setting'
The CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron protonantiproton collider has produced heroic new evidence for the violation of "CP" symmetry, a hypothetical operation which takes a particle into a mirro...
Read article 'Neutrons in time'
A new limit on the electric dipole moment of the neutron comes from an experiment using ultra-cold neutrons at the research reactor at the international Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
Read article 'DEP and PSL sign distribution agreement'
Photodetector supplier Delft Electronic Products, now in its 30th year of manufacturing for the worldwide image intensifier market, has signed a distributor agreement with Photonic Science Ltd for t...
Read article 'CERN: Circular solution to the enigma of nucleon spin'
Over half the nucleon's spin is unaccounted for, but circularly-polarized photons could soon reveal where it is.
