Read article 'B-factory achieves record luminosity'
On 19 February the Belle experiment running at Japan's KEKB accelerator, the KEK B-factory, accumulated a record integrated luminosity in a single day.
Read article 'Russian team builds biggest MDT chambers for muon spectrometer'
The Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, Russia, is producing some of the largest and most challenging chambers for the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector at CERN
Read article 'Tsunami earthquake detected in ATLAS cavern'
During the Christmas break, the hydrostatic level sensors (HLSs) in the ATLAS cavern revealed a new facet of their capabilities.
Read article 'First neutrinos head for MINOS'
The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment was officially inaugurated in a ceremony at Fermilab on 4 March.
Read article 'US budget changes priorities for HEP'
On 8 February the White House released its budget proposal for the financial year 2006.
Read article 'WASA finds a new home at COSY'
The Wide Angle Shower Apparatus (WASA) detector, currently at the CELSIUS facility of The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) in Uppsala, Sweden, is to find a new home.
Read article 'Cornell gets funding for brighter X-rays'
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Cornell University $18 million to begin developing a high-brilliance, high-current Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) synchrotron radiation X-ray source.
Read article 'Radio astronomers observe a possible dark-matter galaxy'
An international team of astronomers has discovered what appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter – the first ever detected. The mystery galaxy, VIRGOHI21, lies in t...
Read article 'CMS cavern ready for its detector'
On 1 February 2005, the cavern for the CMS detector at CERN was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by many guests, including the Spanish and Italian ambassadors to the United Nations and representativ...
Read article 'Celebratory year lifts off in Paris'
More than 1000 people including eight Nobel laureates and close to 500 students from 70 countries took part in the Physics for Tomorrow conference in Paris on 13 January.
