Read article 'Pulling the trigger on LHC electronics'
The conditions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider pose severe challenges for the designers and builders of front-end, trigger and data acquisition electronics. A recent workshop reviewed the encouraging...
Read article 'Giant step for the ATLAS magnet'
The ATLAS collaboration, which is preparing to do physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is building a particle detector like none before.
Read article 'Long haul journey gets ‘under’ way'
On 20 October, CERN director-general Luciano Maiani bravely took over the controls of an excavator for the groundbreaking of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project.
Read article 'Future plans take shape in Beijing'
At Beijing, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) was commissioned in 1988 and physicists are now considering the next step.
Read article 'LHCb’s Brazilian CARIOCA'
The demands that CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider place on detectors have led the LHCb collaboration to look to Latin flair for a solution.
Read article 'ICARUS prepares to fly'
Taking shape in the Italian Gran Sasso underground laboratory is a large module for the Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals detector.
Read article 'Boost for Andean cosmic ray laboratory'
New support for the Chacaltaya Cosmic Ray Research Laboratory, on Mount Chacaltaya near La Paz, Bolivia, underlines its relevance for cosmic ray research.
Read article 'ALICE through the phase transition'
While proton-proton collisions will be the principal diet of CERN's LHC machine, heavy-ion collisions will also be on the menu. The ALICE experiment will be ready and waiting.
Read article 'Enter the quasiparticle trapping transistor'
A new device that can operate in close proximity to highly sensitive superconducting sensors could open up new detector possibilities.
Read article 'ATLAS presents a quality challenge'
Covering a volume of 17 000 metres cubic, the muon system of the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will be one of the largest particle detector systems ever built.
