Read article 'The HERMES gas target: 10 years on'
Erhard Steffens describes the various phases in a successful decade of operation of the HERMES gas target, which may live on with future use for antiproton polarization.
Read article 'CMS drift-tube chambers pass cosmic test'
The CMS collaboration has for the first time operated a whole sector of drift-tube chambers (DTCs) and detected cosmic muons
Read article 'Super-Kamiokande gets full refit'
Operation of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) II detector in Japan was terminated last October after three years of running to begin a full restoration of the detector.
Read article 'Silicon trackers begin to take shape for CMS and ATLAS'
Over the past few months the silicon microstrip tracker of the CMS experiment has been making steady, and rapid, progress towards meeting its next major target - installation of the complete detector ...
Read article 'KEDR adds new precision to meson mass measurements'
In October 2005 the VEPP-4M collider at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics started its latest run with the KEDR detector.
Read article 'MAGIC and Swift capture GRB'
The MAGIC telescope observed a gamma-ray burst seconds after its explosion was detected by NASA's Swift satellite.
Read article 'Neutrino project on target for Gran Sasso'
The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project (CNGS) has reached an important milestone with the successful first assembly of the target in a laboratory on the surface
Read article 'ITEP gives scintillation counters new START'
Scintillation counters, with their simplicity and fast response, have been the quintessential tool for triggering in particle physics since they were first coupled with photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) so...
Read article 'KamLAND detects geoneutrinos'
The Kamioka liquid-scintillator antineutrino detector (KamLAND) has made the first observation of "geoneutrinos".
Read article 'ATLAS calorimeter records cosmic-ray events underground'
On the evening of 21 June, the ATLAS detector, now being installed in the underground experimental hall UX15 at CERN, reached an important psychological milestone: the first cosmic-ray events were rec...
