Read article 'STAR prepares to shine a light on spin'
A major milestone has been reached for the STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with the hoisting of the upper half of the endcap electromagnetic calorimeter (EEMC) int...
Read article 'Components from Iran en route for CMS'
The first of a pair of steel tables and shielding superstructures, which will house the two 110 tonne forward hadron calorimeters for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are due at ...
Read article 'The time projection chamber turns 25'
Since its birth 25 years ago, the time projection chamber has developed into a mature technology that is used in many fields, as Spencer Klein describes.
Read article 'MAGIC opens up the gamma-ray sky'
The MAGIC telescope was inaugurated on 10 October on the Canary Island of La Palma.
Read article 'Auger ready for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays'
With the completion of its 100th surface detector at the end of October, the Pierre Auger Observatory became the largest cosmic-ray air-shower array in the world.
Read article 'A heavy load arrives for ALICE'
On 25 September the two large coils for the ALICE dipole magnet arrived at Point 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after a 1200 km journey from their manufacturer.
Read article 'Constructing ATLAS: a modern ‘ship in a bottle’'
Now that the civil engineering is complete, the cavern for the ATLAS detector at the LHC is ready for the complex business of installing the detector, as Robert Eisenstein explains.
Read article 'Germanium crystals measure position'
Germanium crystals have long been used to study photons with energies from 50 keV to 10 MeV. Their excellent energy resolution (approaching 0.1%) has created numerous applications in nuclear and parti...
Read article 'MINOS project gets going on the far side'
On 14 August, after four years of mining, construction and testing, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) collaboration announced the start-up of its 5400 tonne neutrino detector in th...
Read article 'ALICE prepares for still higher energies'
Collisions of lead ions at the LHC will take heavy-ion physics into a new high-energy regime.
