Read article 'ALICE experiment sees first cosmic-ray events'
On 16 June the time projection chamber (TPC) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started to record its first real events, reconstructing the tracks of cosmic rays.
Read article 'CMS closes up for magnet test and cosmic challenge'
Members of the CMS collaboration have spent much of this year preparing for crucial tests before starting to lower the gigantic detector into the underground cavern in the autumn.
Read article 'Pisa pushes new frontiers'
The island of Elba, off the coast of Tuscany, hosted the 10th Pisa meeting on frontier detectors, a quarter of a century since the meetings began. Giorgio Chiarelli reports.
Read article 'CDF measures matter-antimatter B0s transition'
The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has announced the precision measurement of the matter-antimatter transitions for the B0s meson, which consists of a bottom quark bound to a strange anti-quark.
Read article 'Micro-pattern technology gets set for more challenges'
A recent meeting at CERN reviewed the progress in the development of micro-pattern gas detectors for current and future particle-physics experiments.
Read article 'D0 provides precise results on B0s oscillations'
The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has published the first direct two-sided bound on the oscillation frequency of the B0s, the meson comprising a strange quark (s) and a bottom antiquark (Bbar).
Read article 'KLOE completes a successful run at the DAFNE collider'
On 16 March, operation of the K Long Experiment (KLOE) detector ended after 23 months of continuous running at the DAFNE collider at Frascati.
Read article 'CMS tracker sees first cosmic muons'
The tracker for the CMS experiment at CERN passed an important milestone in March when the first cosmic-muon tracks were observed in one of the end caps.
Read article 'The world’s biggest neutrino detector gets ready for physics'
After a successful construction season over the Austral summer at the South Pole, the IceCube detector array is now preparing to tackle real physics. Spencer Klein reports.
Read article 'ATLAS tracker takes major strides'
At the heart of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), silicon sensors will provide accurate detection of charged particles produced in the collisions.
