Read article 'CERN firms up the LHC schedule'
In a workshop in Chamonix on 2–6 February, members of the LHC accelerator and experimental teams, as well as CERN’s management, met to formulate a realistic timetable to have the LHC running safe...
Read article 'Protons reach the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Hall'
The Main Ring at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) has reached a new milestone with the successful extraction of a proton beam to the Hadron Experimental Hall and then to the beam...
Read article 'MSU will host new rare-isotope facility…'
The US Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a new research facility to advance the understanding of rare nuclear iso...
Read article '…and projects to upgrade the NSCL make excellent progress'
Despite the winter weather, including more than 50 cm of snow in December, construction continued on the new office wing and the new experimental area for research with stopped and reaccelerated rare...
Read article 'MINOS maps the deepest secrets of the upper atmosphere'
A collaborative study by particle physicists and atmospheric researchers has found the first correlations between daily variations in cosmic-ray muons detected deep below ground and large-scale phenom...
Read article 'The primary mechanism of blue stragglers is stellar cannibalism'
The long-standing mystery of the origin of blue stragglers in globular clusters has been solved. Researchers have found that these overweight stars do not result primarily from collisions between star...
Read article 'CERN Council rings in the changes'
At its meeting on 12 December, CERN Council thanked the organization's outgoing management and welcomed in the new.
Read article 'Mobilizing for the LHC'
Investigations following the incident in Sector 3-4 of the LHC on 19 September have confirmed that the cause was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets
Read article 'ALICE achieves energy recovery at Daresbury and Cockcroft Institute'
At 2.00 a.m. on 13 December 2008, the commissioning team at the ALICE facility of the UK's Daresbury Laboratory and Cockcroft Institute successfully demonstrated "energy recovery" from a relativisti...
Read article 'CMS does a full cosmic-data run'
On 11 November 2008 the conclusion of a month-long, major data-taking run by the CMS collaboration brought a two-year commissioning phase to a successful close.
