Read article 'MiniBOONE goes live at Fermilab'
MiniBOONE goes live at Fermilab
The MiniBOONE experiment at Fermilab inthe US saw its first neutrinos in September.
Read article 'MiniBOONE goes live at Fermilab'
Read article 'More to physics than meets the eye'
More to physics than meets the eye
Handling, presenting and understanding the complex track patterns produced in the collisions of high-energy particles calls for considerable ingenuity. Gordon Fraser talks to CERN collision display sp...
Read article 'ALICE crystals arrive at CERN'
ALICE crystals arrive at CERN
The first 500 crystals for the ALICE experiment's photon spectrometer (PHOS) arrived at CERN in May after a journey via Moscow from the town of Apatity in the Russian arctic region.
Read article 'PAMELA set to take particle physics into orbit'
PAMELA set to take particle physics into orbit
The PAMELA experiment, scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome next year, is set to provide a better understanding of the antimatter component of cosmic rays. Mark Pearce reports.
Read article 'Meeting heralds global GW detector network'
Meeting heralds global GW detector network
As the curtain is being raised on today's generation of gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the individual project teams met to consider future detectors and the goal of running the global ensemble of ...
Read article 'MiniBooNE detector is complete'
MiniBooNE detector is complete
The MiniBooNE experiment at the US Fermilab achieved two major milestones recently, as the tank was filled with the last drops of mineral oil and the first trickle of beam was delivered to the tempora...
Read article 'Symposium aims to uncover dark secrets'
Symposium aims to uncover dark secrets
The 5th Symposium of Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, held in February at Marina del Rey, California, focused on the current state of detection and theoretical stu...
Read article 'New detectors for physics at a new mass scale'
New detectors for physics at a new mass scale
Workshops on next-generation neutrino detectors and devices to detect possible nucleon decay have been held since 1999. Jacques Bouchez of the French atomic energy commission (CEA) reports on the most...
Read article 'Particle physics software aids space and medicine'
Particle physics software aids space and medicine
Geant4 is a showcase example of technology transfer from particle physics to other fields such as space and medical science, argue Maria Grazia Pia and Jürgen Knobloch.
Read article 'Superkamiokande to be rebuilt this year'
Superkamiokande to be rebuilt this year
Investigations carried out since then have shown a way to prevent such accidents happening again, and rebuilding is now under way.
