Read article 'Balloon experiment searches for antiparticles above the Antarctic'
The Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer (BESS) launched a cosmic-ray spectrometer from Antarctica on 13 December.
Read article 'CAST sheds some light on axions'
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) collaboration has released the first results from its search for the solar axion, a viable candidate for a dark-matter particle.
Read article 'Countries sign up to XFEL agreement'
A milestone has been reached on the way towards the realization of the European X-ray Free Electron Laser facility (XFEL).
Read article 'AD stores record number of antiprotons'
A new technique for cooling antiprotons has been tested at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD), yielding 50 times more trapped antiprotons per cycle than ever before.
Read article 'ATRAP tests new way to make antihydrogen'
The new method consists of exciting caesium atoms from an oven with two lasers, and then introducing the caesium into a positron trap.
Read article 'RHIC starts colliding copper with copper'
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US has started colliding beams of copper ions.
Read article 'U70 tests stochastic extraction scheme'
Tests for an advanced slow stochastic extraction (SSE) scheme have been performed successfully at the U70, the 70 GeV proton synchrotron at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, in ...
Read article 'Missing baryons found in hot gas'
While it is well known that ordinary baryonic matter constitutes only about 5% of the total energy content of the universe, it is probably less commonly appreciated that about half of this “know...
Read article 'Astroparticle physics and cosmology laboratory opens in Paris'
New Year's Day 2005 saw the official birth of the Laboratoire d'AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC) in Paris.
Read article 'Signs that black holes swarm at galaxy centre'
A swarm of 10,000 black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. This estimate is based on theoretical expectations of the migration of black holes in our galaxy and the ob...
