Read article 'Searching for signals from the dark universe'
At the Italian Gran Sasso National Laboratory, a novel experiment that is in search of signs of the invisible dark matter that pervades our universe reports an intriguing result.
Read article 'Ready for the Bs'
In February, physicists at SLAC, Stanford, successfully finished commissioning the PEP-II B-factory.
Read article 'CMS experiment crystal clear'
As a result of the technological problems to be solved and the global level of participation in the major experiments at CERN's LHC proton collider, supply and manufacturing has to explore unusual so...
Read article 'Detectors for Particle Radiation by Konrad Kleinknecht'
The second edition of this popular text has been updated with the inclusion of recent detector developments and a presentation of modern experimental facilities.
Read article 'Another way to get RICH'
A prototype detector for the ALICE experiment at CERN's LHC collider will be installed in the STAR detector at Brookhaven's RHIC heavy ion collider, scheduled to come into action this year.
Read article 'Roman pots for the LHC'
The "Roman pot" technique has become a time-honoured particle physics approach each time a new energy frontier is opened up, and CERN's LHC proton collider, which can attain collision energies of 14 T...
Read article 'KamLAND: neutrinos from heaven and Earth'
The Japanese Kamiokande underground detector played a leading role in the study of neutrinos produced via cosmic rays and also helped to pioneer the subject of neutrino astronomy. With Kamiokande now ...
Read article 'Raising the dead detectors'
The RD39 collaboration at CERN investigates heavily irradiated silicon detectors operated at cryogenic temperatures. Its results show that, below 100 K, such detectors can be brought back to life. T...
Read article 'Perfect rose'
The Rose collaboration (RD48: R&D on silicon for future experiments) at CERN has tackled the same problem as RD39,
from a different angle but with similar success. Its approach is "defect engineering...
Read article 'Making tracks for the LHC'
Pictures ultimately provide the most graphic record of of particle interactions. For CERN's LHC collider, sophisticated electronic "eyes" at the heart of the big ATLAS and CMS detectors will pick up ...
