
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.
The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
The LHC is now the main focus of activity at CERN, as components for the accelerator arrive at the laboratory from around the world.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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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...
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 ...
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...