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The article reports that physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) are resurrecting particle detector into tomblike pit and mentions that workers eased silver tanks shipping containers. Topics discussed include insulated sarcophagus while technicians mill about on top, U.S. physicists who chose the risky technology for neutrino experiment and lack of signs of physics at particle colliders.

When nuclear matter is heated beyond 2 trillion degrees, it becomes a strongly coupled plasma of quarks and gluons. Experiments using highly energetic collisions between heavy nuclei have revealed that this new state of matter is a nearly ideal, highly opaque liquid. A description based on string theory and black holes in five dimensions has made the quark-gluon plasma an archetypical strongly coupled quantum system. Open questions about the structure and theory of the quark-gluon plasma are under active investigation. Many of the insights are also relevant to ultracold fermionic atoms and strongly correlated condensed matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the development of the Large Hadron Collider at the European particle physics laboratory CERN which will smash particles at unprecedented energy and may open new realms of discovery. Researchers hope to put the largest and most complex experimental device ever built through its warm-up laps. It was designed to smash particles at energies seven times higher than the previous record and should blast out the one bit of matter missing from physicists' theory of the known particles.

The article discusses that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) select site for the Electron- Ion Collider (EIC). It mentions that machine would enable nuclear physicists to probe the mysterious structure of the proton; views of Paul Dabbar, DOE's undersecretary for science, on issue; and also mentions about the numerous quarks and exchanging quantum particles called gluons that carry the proton's momentum.

Looks at the isotope separation online (ISOL), a generation of accelerators that are capable of generating beams of exotic radioactive nuclei. Discussion on exotic nuclear reactions; Two ISOL-based radioactive nuclear beam machines; Details on a technique called fragmentation.

The article explores particle physicists and their worries regarding where their next collider will be built. Particular focus is given to how this relates to the Linear Collider Board meet in Tokyo, Japan, on 7 March 2019, which will determine a decision on Japan's International Linear Collider. The cost of the machine is noted as is the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.

The article offers information on CERN, the particle physics laboratory, which will study the technical and financial feasibility of an atom smasher 80 to 100 kilometers in circumference; and mentions megacollider would succeed the lab's 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The article reports that physicists in Japan have started a redesigned particle collider called Super KEKB at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan.

The article discusses the Tevatron collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, which is scheduled to be shut down September 2011. The author notes that the Tevatron was replaced as the world's highest-energy collider, and the best probe of the structure of matter, by the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN's) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland. A historical overview of some of the Tevatron's major contributions to physics research is presented, including the discovery of the top quark, the precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, and the study of jets of particles containing quarks, which elucidated the strong force that binds quarks.

The article discusses a debate whether the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, should continue to run the Fermilab's 25-year-old atom smasher, the Tevatron collider, for another 3 years. The extension, which would end in 2014, would allow Fermilab researchers to challenge their European rivals in detecting the Higgs boson. Topics include an overview of Higgs boson research and the economic aspects of extending the Tevatron, such as the necessity of stalling other projects to pay for Tevatron's operation including Fermilab's research project NOvA that will begin studying neutrinos in 2013.

The article discusses nuclear physics research using the Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab. As researchers there have not detected a nuclear particle called the Higgs boson, they want to operate the Tevatron for 3 additional years to allow them to do so. Fermilab co-spokesperson Dmitri Denisov is cited regarding plans to look for Higgs bosons in the range of 114 to 185 giga-electron volts.

The article discusses an announcement from officials at the European particle physics laboratory (CERN) that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will take longer to fix than previously expected. The world's highest energy particle smasher will not start up again before September 2009. This provides the Tevatron collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) with an opportunity to spot the Higgs boson, which is the last missing piece in the standard model of fundamental particles. Quotes are provided by University of Padua physicist Tommaso Dorigo and Fermilab's Rob Roser.

The article provides information about the different measures on creating a new collider being established by competing teams from Japan, United States, and Italy. It is stated that physicists and scientists from various countries are planning to push an existing machine to its limits and upgrade its features, use an idea of cobbling together old parts of the machine, and put precision physics to work to be able to build a new particle smasher. Information regarding the features of entries are discussed in the article.

The article focuses on an experiment conducted by a team of physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) that aims to confirm the existence of a new particle in Switzerland. The positive results of the experiment are considered to be revolutionary, thus scientists are aiming to prove first the supposed Polarizzazione del Vuoto con LASer particle. Fermilab researchers performed the experiment by shining a laser through a high technology mirror. An extra superconducting magnet from Fermilab's Tevatron collider is likewise used to supply the testing field. Giovanni Cantatore, physicist at the University of Trieste in Italy, admits the less chances of their economical experiment, but expresses excitement over its possible outcome.

The article discusses the failure on the design of Large Hadron Collider. The result of a key test conducted at the European particle physics laboratory suggested the possibility of a delayed operation of the mammoth subterranean machine near Geneva, Switzerland to redesign the collider. The test manifested damaged magnets when the researchers pressurized its casing to 25 times atmospheric pressure. This technical problem needs to be repaired to meet the intended launching date of the project. Stephen Holmes of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) asserts that the organization has arranged a schedule with CERN to work on the necessary reconstruction.

The article highlights trends pertaining to the design and development of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European laboratory CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The machine is expected to surpass the Superconducting Super Collider which was designed to reach energies three times higher than those of LHC. SSC failed to accomplish its intended application because of a small but expensive design change made by researchers. Researchers have installed hundreds of adjustable constrictions called collimators to the LHC that will catch the inevitable wayward particles.

Focuses on experiments on Higgs boson, a spinless particle corresponding to energy field disturbances. Manifestation of the phenomena according to the wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics; Indication of evidences on the size of Higgs boson; Use of colliders in the analysis of the particle.

The article reports that the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), will soon be back online following a two year shutdown as a result of a radiation leak. Topics include the decision to close the accelerator for safety upgrades; the impact on research projects that used the complex's hadron collider; and the Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) neutrino experiment.

Explains the need of some scientists for an electron collider to be built. United States participation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being built in Geneva, Switzerland; Different plans for a successor to the LHC; Failure of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in 1993; Keys to success for building of new accelerator; Obstacles to overcome.

The article discusses data from an atom smasher in the U.S., called the Tevatron, located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, that hints at the detention of Higgs bosons, which are subatomic particles that hold the key to how all particles get their mass. Reportedly the hints correlate with those seen by researchers working with Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Differences in data between the Tevatron and the LHC are discussed.

The article reports that construction of the SuperB particle collider in Italy was postponed until 2013 due to delays in funding from the Italian government, but the project designers claim that the facility will be on schedule for use in 2016.

The article discusses the length of time it could take to do repairs to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland. Project director Lyn Evans estimated the cost of repair at $13 million or more. Twenty of the facility's superconducting magnets sustained electrical damage shortly after the unveiling of the collider.

The article reports that physicists will have an attempt of loading beams into the Large Hadron Collider. EUROPEAN Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the European particle physics laboratory has announced last week that the beams will be loaded to the most energetic particle smasher on September 10,2008. It is said that the officials have invited researchers and the press to the lab near Geneva, Switzerland to watch. According to Paul Collier, head of accelerator operations at CERN, that they will keep their fingers cross when they turn the tap and the beam goes down the beam pipe.

The article reports on the problems encountered by physicists in the development of International Linear Collider (ILC), a 40-kilometer-long straight-shot particle smasher, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. According to Barry Barish, a physicists at the facility, the ILC has rolled with blows and slowed down due to some threats along the way. The problem started in February 2007, after the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) released a cost estimate for the machine at $6.7 billion, exclusive of the contingency or inflation during planning and construction. The Department of Energy (DOE) warned that the project could take until 2025 or later to get the go-ahead for the machine. Discussed are the details of the project.

The article discusses about the state of particle physics in the United States, following the impending closure of some colliders in the United States. According to the article, back in February 2008, the CESR collider of the Cornell University had been shutdown and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, California will close the PEP-II collider by April 7, 2008. This would make the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois as the remaining particle smasher in the United States. Particle physicists hope are thinking of how can they continue their work and hopes that they would be able to host the proposed International Linear Collider at Fermilab despite budget cuts from the congress and competition from Europe and Japan.

The article reports on the effects of the 2008 budget cut at the United States' Department of Energy to its particle physics program called the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Fermilab and SLAC will have to lay off hundreds of their employees because of the unexpected budget cut. SLAC will also have to shut down PEP-II collider in March 2008 while Fermilab will shut down their Tevatron collider in Batavia, Illinois to cope with the 2008 budget.

The article announces that Cornell University's Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) collider in Ithaca, New York, which is scheduled to stop operating in March 2008, will continue to exist. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) revealed that the collider will be used as a test bed for the proposed multibillion-dollar, 30-kilometer-long International Linear Collider (ILC), which will fire beams of positrons and electrons against each other. The ILC will need damping rings or circular accelerators to cool and compress the beams and the CESR will be used as such.

The article reports that Raymond Orbach, under-secretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has said that physicists developing an engineering design for the proposed multibillion-dollar International Linear Collider (ILC) are getting ahead of themselves. Orbach said physicists must follow the department's protocol that requires a large project to pass five critical decision milestones.

The article reports on the announcement made by the European laboratory CERN on the delay of the world's highest-energy atom smasher called the Large Hardon Collider (LHC) which is supposed to start in November 2007. It is stated that the assembly of the $3.8 billion accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland was more than a month behind. Due to the LHC's start-up delayed until April 2008, U.S. physicists discussed at a meeting at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. They tackled whether to run the laboratory's venerable Tevatron collider through 2010. But, in 2006, physicists worried that the Tevatron would shut down before 2009.

The article discusses the design and cost estimate of International Linear Collider (ILC), straight-shot particle smasher in the U.S. The ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) team stated that the value of the 35-kilometer long machine would be $6.65 billion and 13,000 person years of labor and its value will differ from a cost estimate, because of inflation until the machine is completed in 2016. Barry Barish of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and who lead the GDE states that the amount will likely to double the cost, if the U.S. hosted the machine and bore half the expense would total to $7.5 billion.

The article reports that scientific jack-of-many-trades Jay Marx has been named executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). LIGO is a $300 million collaboration between Caltech and MIT to detect tiny ripples in space and time. He replaces Caltech's Barry Barish, who left to lead the International Linear Collider project. LIGO has twin facilities in Washington state and Louisiana that began taking data in earnest last year and is seeking approval for an upgrade in 2008.

The article reports that last month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) put a 5-year hold on the proposed $1 billion Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA), which promises to unlock the secrets of stellar explosions. Now the DOE has scrapped the RIA design and asked the community to devise a cheaper machine that can make a unique contribution. RIA would have generated exotic nuclei in three ways: by bombarding a target of heavy atoms with protons; by shooting a beam of heavier nuclei through a target of light atoms, causing nuclei in the beam to fragment in flight; and by capturing the fragments in such a beam in a tank of gas and then "reaccelerating" them. The DOE would like researchers to focus on reacceleration because it's a novel approach, says Konrad Gelbke, director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. But reacceleration is an unproven technology, Gelbke says, and the NSCL leads the world in the fast fragmentation technique.

This article reports that researchers around the globe fear that if U.S. particle physics withers, so will the entire field. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) asked physicists to consider which of two existing particle colliders they would rather shut down early to save money. Physicists got a shock in February, when DOE nixed BTeV, a $140 million experiment that would have run at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Using beams from Fermilab's Tevatron collider, BTeV would have studied bottom quarks, heavier, unstable cousins of the down quarks found in protons and neutrons. BTeV researchers were expecting to get the final go-ahead for construction. Meanwhile, researchers in Europe are assembling the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Scheduled to start up in 2007, the $7.7 billion machine might produce the long-sought Higgs boson, the particle thought to give others their mass. But particle physicists from Europe and Asia aren't celebrating the passing of the torch from the United States.

Particle physicists are hot to trot with a cold linear collider. Although money and politics may prevent it from ever being built, the next big machine to explore the fundamental forces and particles in the universe should use "cold" superconducting technology rather than "warm" traditional conductors, scientists decided last week. Scientists at Japan's KEK laboratory in Tsukuba and at SLAC favored using copper cavities to pump an extremely large amount of energy into the accelerating particles in a relatively small space.

The mass of the top quark just got a top-off. A new analysis of the fundamental particle implies that it is a little heavier than previously thought. The top quark is the heaviest of the six indivisible quarks that make up composite particles such as the protons and neutrons at the center of every atom. Scientists can "weigh" the top quark by using particle colliders to smash protons and antiprotons together at enormous speeds and studying the resulting sprays of particles, including those that are generated by top quarks created by the energy of the collision.

Reports on research being conduced at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics' Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). Efforts to transcend the `Standard model' of particles and forces; Energy level reached at the LEP; LEP's use of superconducting radio-frequency cavities; Home pages of various LEP experiments.

Reports that Japan has agreed to finance the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. Contribution of $60 million from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Japan as the first country to commit; Other science projects.

Reports that CERN, the European high-energy center near Geneva in Switzerland approved a plan to build the Large Hadron Collider in an existing tunnel built for the Large Electron-Positron Collider.

Announces that United States and European government officials agreed to US participation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now under construction near Geneva, Switzerland. Purpose of LHC; Politics of agreement.

Report on the progress made by the Large Electron Positron Collided (LEP) in Europe, a competitor of Stanford's Linear Collided and Chicago's Fermilab, in the production of Z particles.