Read article 'STAR prepares to shine a light on spin'
A major milestone has been reached for the STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with the hoisting of the upper half of the endcap electromagnetic calorimeter (EEMC) int...
Read article 'PEP II gets ready for a data bonanza'
Three months into run 4 and the PEP II accelerator, the electron-positron collider at SLAC, is performing beautifully.
Read article 'Components from Iran en route for CMS'
The first of a pair of steel tables and shielding superstructures, which will house the two 110 tonne forward hadron calorimeters for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are due at ...
Read article 'New Zealand signs up to co-operate with CERN'
On 4 December 2003 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between CERN and the government of New Zealand was signed in the presence of Peter Hamilton, New Zealand's ambassador to Switzerland.
Read article 'PPARC announces research agenda for the UK'
The UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has outlined its latest research goals in its Strategic Plan for 2003-2008.
Read article 'ICFA launches selection process'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), chaired by director of SLAC Jonathan Dorfan, has announced the members of a 12-person International Technology Recommendation Panel (ITRP) f...
Read article 'US defines roadmap for science facilities'
The US Department of Energy's Office of Science has unveiled its 20 year science facility plan. This is in effect a roadmap for future scientific facilities to support the department's basic science a...
Read article 'CERN hosts major policy conference'
Scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from around the world came together at CERN on 8 and 9 December 2003, when the laboratory hosted The Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) confer...
Read article 'Spitzer Space Telescope delivers first pictures'
On 18 December 2003 a new window to the universe opened with the release of the first dazzling images from NASA’s newly named Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space InfraRed Telesc...
Read article 'New five-quark states found at CERN'
Only a few months after the first burst of excitement over the appearance at several laboratories of what seems to be a new five-quark particle, evidence has been found for a different five-quark stat...
