Read article 'LHC upgrade takes shape with CARE and attention'
Even before the Large Hadron Collider has accelerated its first beams, various groups have begun to plan an upgrade scheduled for around the middle of the next decade.
Read article 'Exploiting the synergy between great and small'
Cosmological discoveries shed new light on the nature of fundamental particles, and vice versa. This synergy between the greatest and the smallest components of the universe was the subject of the 200...
Read article 'STAR has silicon at its core'
A silicon strip detector is providing more power for particle detection in Brookhaven National Laboratory's STAR experiment.
Read article 'HERA hits new heights'
Ferdinand Willeke reports on the challenges faced by the HERA crew to get the accelerator back into full swing after a major luminosity upgrade in 2001.
Read article 'Spin time in Italy'
The SPIN 2004 symposium in Trieste provided a showcase for the latest developments in this key area of particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'News from the frontline in the hunt for exotic nuclei'
In Russia last summer 220 scientists attended an international symposium reviewing present and future research into exotic nuclei.
Read article 'Protons on the doorstep of the LHC'
The first of the two new beam transfer lines to the LHC was successfully commissioned in autumn 2004. At the first attempt a low-intensity proton beam passed down the line to a few metres before the L...
Read article 'Particles meet cosmology and strings in Boston'
PASCOS 2004 is the latest in the symposium series that brings together disciplines from the frontier areas of modern physics.
Read article 'HESS provides new view of gamma-ray sky'
The first results from the HESS array of Cherenkov telescopes are introducing a new era in the study of very-high-energy cosmic gamma rays, as Werner Hofmann describes.
Read article 'Neutrino physics gains new levels of popularity'
A few years ago, the question was whether or not neutrinos had mass; today we are asking what their exact mass is, as participants at Neutrino 2004 discovered.
