Read article 'CMS gets ready for its descent underground'
July saw some major manoeuvres for the CMS detector, as the collaboration prepares to lower it into its final position on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Read article 'PAMELA looks for dark matter and antimatter'
PAMELA will stay in space for at least three years, on a 70° elliptic orbit at an altitude of 300–600 km.
Read article 'Japanese source starts lasing at 49 nm wavelength in VUV'
On 20 June, the SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS) prototype accelerator generated its first pulses at a wavelength of 49 nm in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region.
Read article 'Trap gives precise new value for fine structure constant'
A team at Harvard University has made a new precise measurement of the electron magnetic moment, which in turns allows the fine structure constant to be determined with an uncertainty 10 times smaller...
Read article 'Satellite gives a new view of pulsars'
Observations of old pulsars by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite fail to detect the 1 million-degree hot spots seen around the pole of younger pulsars. The absence of polar X...
Read article 'LHC start-up confirmed for 2007'
First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will occur in November 2007, LHC project leader Lyn Evans told the 137th meeting of the CERN Council on 23 June.
Read article 'MAGIC discovers variable very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from a microquasar'
The MAGIC telescope has discovered variable very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from a microquasar.
Read article 'EIFast workshop presents XFEL project to international industry'
A total of 57 companies and 14 institutions from 13 countries demonstrated their interest in the European X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) project at an industry workshop held at DESY on 9-10 May.
Read article 'Parametric X-ray radiation yields new tool to detect relativistic nuclei'
Researchers at the Nuclotron at the Laboratory for High Energies at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, have observed parametric X-ray radiation (PXR) from moderately relativistic ...
Read article 'ALICE experiment sees first cosmic-ray events'
On 16 June the time projection chamber (TPC) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started to record its first real events, reconstructing the tracks of cosmic rays.
