10 February 2011

…Universität und Desy bündeln im neuen Projekt PIER ihre Kompetenzen in der Physik. Auch Entwicklung der Medizintechnik wird davon profitieren.

Russia is returning to the big leagues of science by becoming a full-fledged participant in major international projects. One of them, [FAIR], is headed by Boris Sharkov, a Russian physicist.

After all, if the Higgs proves to be near the lower end of its range of possible masses, as experiments indicate is likely, the Tevatron would have had a good shot at finding it—and maybe even beating the LHC to the punch.

IceCube is something different, an observatory built entirely beneath the ice. Along each of the 86 cables are strung 60 three-foot spherical detectors (…). These glass-covered orbs are designed to find evidence of neutrinos.

Using technology enabled by Ciena’s ActivFlex 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, the trial successfully transmitted data over a network connecting the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva and the IN2P3 Computing Center in Lyon, France.