Read article 'The Inner Tracking System arrives at the heart of ALICE'
On 15 March 100 physicists and engineers gathered in the ALICE underground cavern to witness the end of a 15 year journey of development, construction, commissioning and testing...
Read article 'The LHC: illuminating the high-energy frontier'
During the next few years, discoveries at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will revolutionize our understanding of matter, forces and space. John Ellis looks at what might lie in store...
Read article 'Spark-proof GEM gives higher gain'
A team from CERN and INFN has developed the resistive-electrode thick GEM, or RETGEM, which offers a high gain while being intrinsically protected against sparks.
Read article 'A new challenge for particle physics'
TRIUMF's new director Nigel Lockyer looks to the future of co-operation in particle physics, and Canada's role in this increasingly global adventure.
Read article 'New BMBF funding for LHC experiments'
In February the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF, set up new funding for the German universities and institutions involved in ALICE, ATLAS and CMS.
Read article 'ALICE’s TPC arrives at experiment cavern…'
In early January ALICE's time projection chamber (TPC) moved 300 m from the assembly hall to the experiment cavern, taking four days to complete the journey.
Read article 'The EEE Project: big science goes to school'
Antonino Zichichi tells Bob Swarup about his initiative to bring frontier research in physics into the heart of Italian schools and to encourage the next generation of physicists.
Read article 'String theory meets heavy ions in Shanghai'
The latest experimental results from the heavy-ion programmes at RHIC and CERN's SPS were the focus of attention at QM2006 in Shanghai. For the first time there were discussions ab...
Read article 'ALICE forges ahead with detector installation'
When it starts up the ALICE experiment will observe collisions of heavy ions in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where "fireballs" of extremely hot and dense matter will be flee...
Read article 'Hard Probes conference focuses on jet quenching'
The latest jet-quenching results were a major topic of discussion at the second conference dedicated to the use of hard probes for investigating the hot and dense quark–gluon mat...
