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09/21/17

Concrete applications for accelerator science

A project called A2D2 will explore new applications for compact linear accelerators.

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Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25

Sarah Charley

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

11/01/04

Typing rain

The assembled group of SLAC users hushed as Gabriella Sciolla rose to open the SLAC Users Organization annual meeting. And with that quiet came the rain.

11/01/04

The universe (in fireworks)

In its 50th anniversary year, CERN had the honor of opening the 2004 Geneva Festival (Fêtes de Genève).

11/01/04

Secret city

Snezhinsk, Russia, kept a secret for 35 years—its own existence.

11/01/04

Author growth

The SPIRES databases, run by a collaboration of SLAC, Fermilab and DESY libraries, have a wealth of information about the field of particle physics.

11/01/04

The Grid

"Large scale networks of computing resources in the service of the most computationally intensive problems of the future" is one vision of the Grid, being developed by computer scientists and physicists around the globe.

11/01/04

The road to Beijing

It was 10 p.m. Thursday in California, midnight Thursday in Chicago, 7 a.m. Friday in Europe, 1 p.m. Friday in China and 2 p.m. Friday in Japan when Jonathan Dorfan stood up to announce the recommendation of the International Technology Recommendation Panel.

11/01/04

Antimatter

Antimatter is matter’s natural counterpart.

11/01/04

Extreme neutrinos

Searching for the secrets of the universe in the depths of the earth.

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