Read article 'First test beams are delivered for the LHC'
The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
Read article 'CERN Council sets the stage for the LHC'
The LHC is now the main focus of activity at CERN, as components for the accelerator arrive at the laboratory from around the world.
Read article 'Data Grid project gets EU funding'
Plans for the next generation of network-based information-handling systems took a major step forward when the European Union's Fifth Framework Information Society Technologies pr...
Read article 'Experiments revisit the quark-gluon soup'
The main goal of this research is to explore the transition from ordinary hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma - matter as it is thought to have existed at the birth of the univ...
Read article 'Can gas detectors still compete with silicon?'
The big topic of debate at the 9th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation held in February was whether gaseous detectors can still compete with semiconductor technology.
Read article 'Science knows no boundaries'
Physics provides a stage for international collaboration. At the opening of a recent exhibition at the Russian Duma, presented by CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Researc...
Read article 'CERN hosts major magnet conference'
Represented in the MT-17 delegate list were 27 countries, giving an indication of the growing importance of magnet technology. An industrial exhibition at the conference was attend...
Read article 'Quark matter conference highlights RHIC results'
Following the 2000 announcement by the CERN heavy-ion community of evidence for a new state of unbound quark-gluon matter, heavy-ion physicists have been eagerly awaiting results f...
Read article 'Workshops focus on photon-hadron collisions'
As well as taking proton-proton and heavy-ion physics into a new energy regime, CERN's LHC will produce the world's highest-energy photon-hadron interactions, providing a powerful ...
Read article 'LBNL celebrates its 75th anniversary with style'
The lab that began life as the home of Lawrence's 27 inch cyclotron has grown into a multi-disciplinary research centre with a promising future. Spencer Klein takes a look at LBNL...
