Detectors Archives – Page 24 of 50

BEPCII/BESIII accumulates 100 million ψ(2S) in Beijing

After five years of construction, the upgraded Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII) and the new Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) finished accumulating their first large data set of more than 100...

Borexino homes in on neutrino oscillations

Experiment at Gran Sasso provides key evidence for the solar-neutrino problem.

ALICE prepares for jet measurements

ALICE is designed to study matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC, in particular using lead ions. The goal is to investigate thoroughly the characteristics of hot, dense matter a...

PAMELA finds an anomalous cosmic positron abundance

The collaboration for the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) experiment has published evidence of a cosmic-positron abundance in the 1.5–100 GeV range.

MINOS maps the deepest secrets of the upper atmosphere

A collaborative study by particle physicists and atmospheric researchers has found the first correlations between daily variations in cosmic-ray muons detected deep below ground and large-scale phenom...

ALICE achieves energy recovery at Daresbury and Cockcroft Institute

At 2.00 a.m. on 13 December 2008, the commissioning team at the ALICE facility of the UK's Daresbury Laboratory and Cockcroft Institute successfully demonstrated "energy recovery" from a relativisti...

Pierre Auger Collaboration inaugurates observatory

More than 200 guests and 100 collaboration members celebrated the inauguration of the Pierre Auger Observatory at its southern site in Malargüe, Argentina, on 14 November.