CERN Courier – April 2005
News
First dipole descends to LHC
B-factory achieves record luminosity
Russian team builds biggest MDT chambers for muon spectrometer
Tsunami earthquake detected in ATLAS cavern
First neutrinos head for MINOS
US budget changes priorities for HEP
WASA finds a new home at COSY
Cornell gets funding for brighter X-rays
Sciencewatch
Displacement joins the quantum club
Silicon dot pushes boundary of single-photon detectors
Study challenges claims about grammar versus mathematics
Transitions viewed on the atomic scale
Features
Rewriting the rules on proton acceleration
Ken Takayama describes recent tests at KEK that have demonstrated induction acceleration in a proton synchrotron.
LHC upgrade takes shape with CARE and attention
Even before the Large Hadron Collider has accelerated its first beams, various groups have begun to plan an upgrade scheduled for around the middle of the next decade.
Exploiting the synergy between great and small
Cosmological discoveries shed new light on the nature of fundamental particles, and vice versa. This synergy between the greatest and the smallest components of the universe was the subject of the 2004 DESY Theory Workshop, held in Hamburg.
STAR has silicon at its core
A silicon strip detector is providing more power for particle detection in Brookhaven National Laboratory's STAR experiment.
Computing News and Features
UNOSAT tackles tsunami challenge
Semantic Web boosts access to information
W3C's character model promotes universal access
DOAR opens the way to research data
Tim Berners-Lee takes up chair...
...while David Williams gets professorship
NorduGrid provides resources for ATLAS
NSF release backs cyberinfrastructure
GridX1 project joins LHC Computing Grid
@home with Einstein and the LHC
Calendar of events and product information
DESY becomes hub for Grid-based HERA events
To meet the computing challenges resulting from the upgrade of the HERA collider, scientists at DESY are employing Grid technology to increase simulation power.
Regulars
Faces and places
Bookshelf
Viewpoint: In need of the human touch
Software development is more than engineering and still needs the human factor to be successful, says Federico Carminati.