Read article 'UK and US announce budget bombshells for particle physics'
Within one week in December 2007, particle physicists in the UK and the US received unexpectedly bad budget news, which rocked the two communities.
Read article '…and looks to the LHC start-up and beyond'
CERN director-general Robert Aymar, in his end-of-year status account to Council, reported on a year of progress at the LHC, which is due to start operation in the summer.
Read article 'Council appoints Rolf-Dieter Heuer as CERN’s next director-general…'
On 14 December, at its 145th meeting, CERN Council appointed Rolf-Dieter Heuer to succeed Robert Aymar as CERN's director-general.
Read article 'When white dwarfs collide…'
A peculiar supernova discovered last year could be the first that is known to have originated from the coalescence of two white dwarfs. These compact stars orbiting each other slowly spiralled inward ...
Read article 'J-PARC accelerates protons to 3GeV'
On 31 October a team at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) accelerated a proton beam to the design energy of 3 GeV in the new Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron (RCS).
Read article 'OPERA takes first photographs'
The first neutrino event of the 2007 run of the CERN Neutrinos Gran Sasso (CNGS) facility was recorded on 2 October, when one of the many millions of neutrinos in the beam from CERN interacted in the...
Read article 'Second LHC transfer line passes beam test with flying colours'
Three years after the initial commissioning of the SPS-to-LHC transfer line, TI 8, the second transfer line, TI 2, has passed its first test with beam.
Read article 'LHCb installs its fragile precision silicon detector'
One of the most fragile detectors for the LHCb experiment has been successfully installed in its final position.
Read article 'Robert Aymar seals the final main magnet interconnection'
At a brief ceremony on 7 November deep in the LHC tunnel CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar, sealed the last interconnection between the collider's main magnet systems.
Read article 'Neutrino mixing at Daya Bay'
The experiment is poised to investigate the least well known sector of the recently discovered phenomenon of neutrino mixing.
