Read article 'ATLAS puts last piece in puzzle…'
ATLAS puts last piece in puzzle…
The ATLAS collaboration celebrated lowering the final large piece of the detector into the underground cavern on 29 February.
Read article 'ATLAS puts last piece in puzzle…'
Read article 'ALICE and CMS line up the final big pieces underground'
ALICE and CMS line up the final big pieces underground
With the completion of two major installation projects, nearly all the infrastructure for the ALICE experiment is now in place in the cavern at Point 2 on the LHC ring, near St. Genis-Pouilly in Fra...
Read article 'CMS starts underground'
CMS starts underground
In July 2006, the huge segments of the CMS detector came together for the first time for the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge at the experiment's site near Cessy in France.
Read article 'CMS installs the world’s largest silicon detector'
CMS installs the world’s largest silicon detector
With more than 200 square meters of silicon sensors, the tracking system for CMS is a world-beater.
Read article 'Construction of IceCube project at the South Pole reaches the halfway point'
Construction of IceCube project at the South Pole reaches the halfway point
The teams installing the IceCube experiment at the South Pole have completed a highly successful austral summer season, during which they installed 18 detector strings – 4 more than in the baselin...
Read article 'Vertex 2007 prepares for the radiation challenge'
Vertex 2007 prepares for the radiation challenge
A workshop at Lake Placid focused on developments in vertex detectors.
Read article 'Electronics for LHC-era experiments and beyond'
Electronics for LHC-era experiments and beyond
TWEPP ’07 reviewed lessons learnt and looked to future projects.
Read article 'Camera captures image of two-proton decay'
Camera captures image of two-proton decay
In work that harks back to the early days of nuclear physics, an international team of researchers at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) has used a novel ...
Read article 'CERN installs giant CMS tracking detector'
CERN installs giant CMS tracking detector
The world's largest silicon tracking detector is now in its final location in the CMS detector at CERN.
Read article 'ALICE gets ready to pinpoint muon pairs'
ALICE gets ready to pinpoint muon pairs
How to build a muon spectrometer to study hot quark matter.
