Read article 'First neutrinos head for MINOS'
First neutrinos head for MINOS
The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment was officially inaugurated in a ceremony at Fermilab on 4 March.
Read article 'First neutrinos head for MINOS'
Read article 'WASA finds a new home at COSY'
WASA finds a new home at COSY
The Wide Angle Shower Apparatus (WASA) detector, currently at the CELSIUS facility of The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) in Uppsala, Sweden, is to find a new home.
Read article 'STAR has silicon at its core'
STAR has silicon at its core
A silicon strip detector is providing more power for particle detection in Brookhaven National Laboratory's STAR experiment.
Read article 'CMS cavern ready for its detector'
CMS cavern ready for its detector
On 1 February 2005, the cavern for the CMS detector at CERN was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by many guests, including the Spanish and Italian ambassadors to the United Nations and representativ...
Read article 'Balloon experiment searches for antiparticles above the Antarctic'
Balloon experiment searches for antiparticles above the Antarctic
The Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer (BESS) launched a cosmic-ray spectrometer from Antarctica on 13 December.
Read article 'CAST sheds some light on axions'
CAST sheds some light on axions
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) collaboration has released the first results from its search for the solar axion, a viable candidate for a dark-matter particle.
Read article 'The heart of ATLAS takes shape'
The heart of ATLAS takes shape
Particle physicists in the UK have completed the first critical element of the largest semiconductor tracker ever built, the ATLAS SCT, which is to form the innermost core of the giant detector that w...
Read article 'Indian chips on track for ALICE'
Indian chips on track for ALICE
As an observer state of CERN, India is collaborating in many aspects of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project - building components of the accelerator as well as constructing detectors for various e...
Read article 'Muon chambers are on course for ATLAS'
Muon chambers are on course for ATLAS
On 5 October, technicians at NIKHEF, the Dutch National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics, glued the last layer of aluminium drift tubes on the 101st and final ATLAS precision muon...
Read article 'Calling long distance: Geneva to Italy'
Calling long distance: Geneva to Italy
The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) project is set to deliver its first neutrinos in spring 2006. A key element is the vast decay tube.
