Full steam ahead
Rolf-Dieter Heuer talks to Physics World about the challenges of taking over as boss of the CERN particle-physics lab next January just as the Large Hadron Collider reaches full throttle
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LHC start-up announced
Robert Aymar, director general of CERN, gave his talk on the forthcoming Large Hadron Collider with veteran poise. The particle accelerator, he said, will reveal the origin of mass, the nature of dark...
Neutron lab comes back from the dead
Towards the ESS
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A little bang at SLAC
What’s the best way to determine the structure of a molecule that cannot be integrated within a periodic lattice? Blow the heck out of it using x-ray pulses from the Linac Coherent Light Source ...
Diamond light source ready for business
UK synchrotron opens its doors to users
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ITER fusion reactor gets final approval
Multinational consortium signs formal agreement to build research facility
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Fermilab names new director
Pier Oddone from Berkeley will take over from next July
Time for big decisions
Important choices have to be made this year
Physicists push themselves to the limit
Frost bite, no toilets and polar bears - these are some of the hazards that physicists face when working in hostile environments. But, as Paula Gould reports, they seem to enjoy it
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Antimatter factory opens at CERN
Unlike most experiments at CERN, the £3.2 million Antimatter Decelerator (AD) is designed to slow down particles rather than accelerate them. The antiprotons are created when high-energy protons ...
