24 February 2011
The operators of the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN switched their machine back on last weekend. First low-energy beams circulated on Sunday morning, and the team is now working on a series of tests for various systems of the accelerator before they can send high-energy beams into collision in the detectors.
17 February 2011
The test beam season is about to start and the prototype of the ILD time projection chamber is being prepared for a round of new tests in the DESY testbeam facility - captured here by a professional photographer.
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10 February 2011
Image: KEKAnother toy for particle physicists to play with: BELLE-II-detector model made of... LEGO! This work of University of Tokyo students is exhibited in Tokyo till 25 March, at the exhibition hall of the MEXT, KEK's funding agency.
3 February 2011
Geneva, 31 January 2011. CERN1 today announced that the LHC will run through to the end of 2012 with a short technical stop at the end of 2011. The beam energy for 2011 will be 3.5 TeV. This decision, taken by CERN management following the annual planning workshop held in Chamonix last week and a report delivered today by the laboratory’s machine advisory committee, gives the LHC’s experiments a good chance of finding new physics in the next two years, before the LHC goes into a long shutdown to prepare for higher energy running starting 2014.
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3 February 2011
Today, China celebrates the first day of the year of the rabbit. 春节快乐！(Happy spring festival!)
27 January 2011
Sculpting the future: the members of the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders, or FALC, took a break from their discussions about the next-generation linear collider at SLAC last Saturday to gather around a work of art for a group picture. Read more about their meeting in SLAC Today.
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20 January 2011
SLAC's new Director of the Accelerator Directorate Norbert Holtkamp (2nd from left) meets with GDE Project Managers Nick Walker, Marc Ross and Akira Yamamoto on a sunny afternoon in Palo Alto, California. Holtkamp welcomed GDE members to SLAC at their second Baseline Assessment Workshop on Tuesday.
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13 January 2011
Today we received the news that we will not receive funding for the proposed Tevatron extension and consequently the Tevatron will close at the end of FY2011 as was previously planned. The present budgetary climate did not permit DOE to secure the additional funds needed to run the Tevatron for three more years as recommended by the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel.
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13 January 2011
It's been a snowy winter in the Chicago, Illinois area. A Fermilab cooling pond has begun icing over. Wilson Hall stands in the background.
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6 January 2011
On 19 December, at the height of the antarctic summer, the IceCube neutrino detector was completed after a decade of planning, building, testing and melting holes into ice. The main IceCube detector, a massive ice-bound telescope that fills a cubic kilometre of deep Antarctic ice, now contains 5,160 optical sensors on 86 strings embedded two kilometres below the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Read the press release
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