Nuclear Science Group Develops Eclipse-Based App on Linux
White Papers In what appears to be a coup for the IBM-born Eclipse open source Java development framework, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto) has started using it to build a Linux-based desktop application for controlling...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News The second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) beam synchronisation systems took place on Friday evening in a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, according to a Monday statement from the European Organization for Nuclear...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
Hadron Collider shut down until early spring
News Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (or Cern), it promises to push forward theories of particle physics, such as the Higgs Boson, and the fundamental building blocks of all things.
[September 24, 2008, 9:36]
Revived LHC could run through the winter
News The European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) flagship particle accelerator has been out of action since September, when an electrical fault called a halt to an experiment to understand the fundamental physics of matter.
[May 27, 2009, 17:02]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News By smashing particles together at unprecedented — in man-made terms — energies, the scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) hope to answer questions such as why some subatomic particles are heavier than others, and how...
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
LHC on course for November restart
News Six out of eight superconducting sectors are down to working cryogenic temperatures, according to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. Within two weeks, scientists will inject a beam of protons into the LHC and guide them around...
[October 5, 2009, 14:05]
LHC restart pushed back further
News The machine is located at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern), where it straddles the Swiss/French border. According to the document, written by Jorg Weninger, a member of the operations group, 'Plan A' called for a restart of the...
[November 28, 2008, 13:47]
What ZDNet UK readers want for Christmas
News Santa has a great deal of sympathy for Vincent Roberts, who "being a nuclear safety engineer, would love to have a wireless link from my PDA to control our two nuclear reactors, so that I could spend time at home and keep in touch with 'the office'.
[December 24, 2004, 8:40]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
News On the morning of Wednesday, 10 September, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[September 10, 2008, 13:03]
California utility to buy space-based solar energy
News That is smaller than a full-scale nuclear or natural gas plant, but enough to supply thousands of homes. California regulators on Thursday approved an ambitious project to beam solar energy from space, starting in 2016.
[December 4, 2009, 13:39]
Large Hadron Collider up and running again
Blog The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a statement on Friday that particle beams are once again circulating in the LHC, and that a clockwise circulating beam was established at 10 PM local time.
[November 20, 2009, 23:03]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The LHC, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, was built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) to conduct experiments to test fundamental physics theories and to search for important new science such as the Higgs Boson.
[October 3, 2008, 14:07]
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic particle accelerator located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along the French-Swiss border about 330 feet underground, was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as...
[September 22, 2008, 8:18]
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
News The first attempt to circulate a beam of particles around the tunnel will take place on 10 September, according to a Thursday statement by the LHC's builders, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[August 8, 2008, 12:41]
Cern plans gentle restart for LHC in November
News The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in November at a level it says will not overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment, which has experienced a year of...
[August 10, 2009, 11:30]
Faulty transformer downs Large Hadron Collider
News The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the organisation that built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), announced on Thursday that a transformer that helps cool part of the collider had malfunctioned, forcing operations to be suspended.
[September 19, 2008, 8:07]
LHC disaster.
Talkback The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing groups of billions of heavy subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to...
[October 21, 2008, 21:23]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News Robert Aymar, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), told ZDNet.co.uk earlier this month that Cern scientists believed an electrical connection had been at fault. This confirmed the location of the electrical arc...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
