Read article 'Thinking big: the next generation of detectors'
The conference on the Next Generation of Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors looked at the development of new, large-scale detectors. Alain de Bellefon reports.
Read article 'Telescope takes next step to high-energy frontier'
In April, while Lake Baikal in Siberia was iced over, the neutrino telescope 1.1 km below the surface was successfully upgraded with three additional strings. Renamed NT200+ it is tailored to search ...
Read article 'ClearPET offers improved insight into animal brains'
An efficient new PET scanner for the small animal brain, developed by the Crystal Clear collaboration, is now in production.
Read article 'CMS VPT production reaches 10,000 mark'
The CMS experiment, under construction for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, recently took delivery of its 10,000th vacuum phototriode (VPT), to be used in the Electromagnetic Endcap Calorimete...
Read article 'PET and CT: a perfect fit'
In the June 2005 issue of CERN Courier (the last to be published jointly in French and English), David Townsend – who began his pioneering work in PET imaging 30 years earlier while a staff member a...
Read article 'RHIC groups serve up ‘perfect’ liquid'
The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have announced results indicating that they have observed a state of ho...
Read article 'The ice cube at the end of the world'
What do you get when you take 1 Gt of water, cool it to -40 °C and add 4800 phototubes? The answer is IceCube, a neutrino telescope now being deployed at the South Pole.
Read article 'RICH meeting provides a wealth of information'
RICH2004, held in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, presented a snapshot of the lively field of Cherenkov light imaging.
Read article 'Russian team builds biggest MDT chambers for muon spectrometer'
The Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, Russia, is producing some of the largest and most challenging chambers for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at CERN
Read article 'Tsunami earthquake detected in ATLAS cavern'
During the Christmas break, the hydrostatic level sensors (HLSs) in the ATLAS cavern revealed a new facet of their capabilities.
