Read article 'Frontier techniques for particle physics and beyond'
Frontier techniques for particle physics and beyond
Giorgio Chiarelli reports from the 9th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, held this year on the island of Elba.
Read article 'Frontier techniques for particle physics and beyond'
Read article 'ATLAS cavern ready for its detector'
ATLAS cavern ready for its detector
The ATLAS cavern has become the first new experimental cavern for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be handed over to CERN by civil-engineering contractors.
Read article '‘Naked’ crystals go underground'
‘Naked’ crystals go underground
On 5 May, four "naked" high-purity germanium detectors were installed in liquid nitrogen in the GENIUS Test Facility (GENIUS-TF) at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory.
Read article 'Decision to flood hits US underground science plans'
Decision to flood hits US underground science plans
The announcement that pumping will stop at the Homestake mine has clouded the future of the favoured site for a proposed major underground laboratory in the US.
Read article 'The legacy of the bubble chamber'
The legacy of the bubble chamber
A recent one-day meeting in Bologna looked back on the era of the bubble chamber, and recalled its technical achievements and main discoveries, as well as the sociology behind its development.
Read article 'Boulby extends the search for dark matter'
Boulby extends the search for dark matter
On 28 April, the UK minister for science and innovation, Lord Sainsbury, opened a new research cavern at the Boulby Underground Laboratory for Dark Matter Research, at Boulby in North Yorkshire, UK.
Read article 'ANTARES succeeds with underwater connections'
ANTARES succeeds with underwater connections
A prototype ANTARES detection line is returning data after a two-day mission by the Nautile submersible to make the necessary connections on the sea-bed.
Read article 'NESTOR sees muons at the bottom of the sea'
NESTOR sees muons at the bottom of the sea
On 29 March the NESTOR collaboration successfully deployed the first "floor" for a detector tower at its site 4000 m deep in the Ionian Sea.
Read article 'MACRO delivers its final word on monopoles'
MACRO delivers its final word on monopoles
The MACRO experiment searched for magnetic monopoles throughout the 1990s. It found none but set stringent limits.
Read article 'The curtain goes up on OPERA'
The curtain goes up on OPERA
The first module for the target tracker for OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) was centre stage at the Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS) in Strasbourg in January, wh...
