Read article 'LHCb: A beauty of an experiment (archive)'
LHCb: A beauty of an experiment (archive)
Article from the archive about the born of the LHCb collaboration and the detector to study the beauty quarks.
Read article 'LHCb: A beauty of an experiment (archive)'
Read article 'ALICE: The heavy-ion challenge'
ALICE: The heavy-ion challenge
When the ideas for ALICE were first formed at the end of 1990, the heavy-ion programme was still in its infancy and very little was known about what physics to expect or what kind of detector would be...
Read article 'ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)'
ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)
A compilation of articles about the ALICE experiment, its design and its goals.
Read article 'CMS: A study in compactness (archive)'
CMS: A study in compactness (archive)
A compilation of past articles about the CMS experiment, its design and its goals.
Read article 'ATLAS: The making of a giant'
ATLAS: The making of a giant
A multipurpose detector, its physics goals range from the search for the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles to the exploration of extra dimensions and other alternative scenarios.
Read article 'ATLAS: A titan fit for the LHC (archive)'
ATLAS: A titan fit for the LHC (archive)
Archives from ATLAS construction.
Read article 'Gas detectors advance into a second century'
Gas detectors advance into a second century
The latest developments in a technique dating back to Ernest Rutherford.
Read article 'Pixels make for perfect particle tracking in ALICE'
Pixels make for perfect particle tracking in ALICE
The silicon pixel detector in ALICE has an important role to play in demanding conditions at the LHC
Read article '…and time flies for the ALICE detector'
…and time flies for the ALICE detector
During the last week of April, the ALICE experiment’s time-of-flight (TOF) detector was completed and installed in the experimental cavern.
Read article 'CMS completes milestone installation of beam pipe…'
CMS completes milestone installation of beam pipe…
On 10 June the CMS collaboration reached another major milestone when the heart of the detector, the beam pipe, was fully installed after 15 years of complex design and manufacture.
