CERN Courier: June 2005
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Features
PET and CT: a perfect fit
David Townsend began his pioneering work in PET imaging 30 years ago while at CERN. Here he talks to Beatrice Bressan about his current work and how the field developed.
Energy-recovering linacs begin maturing
The ERL2005 Workshop at Jefferson Lab in March - the first of its kind - reviewed an innovative use of electron linacs in light sources and, potentially, particle colliders.
HERA and LHC workshops help prepare for the future
A series of workshops has given scientists the opportunity to discover how the studies currently being carried out at HERA will influence future physics at the LHC.
Records fall at Cornell
Experiments at Cornell are breaking records for accelerating gradients and Q values in superconducting radio-frequency cavities, reports Hasan Padamsee.
Hard probes conference finds success in Portugal
In November, more than 100 enthusiasts headed to a fishing village near Lisbon for the first international conference on hard probes of heavy-ion collisions, Hard Probes 2004.
Computing News and Features
Industrial solutions find a place at CERN
David Myers and Wayne Salter describe the increasing use of commercial solutions in control systems at CERN and the recent formation of a users' group.
Regulars
Viewpoint: Join the open-access revolution
Ken Peach argues that particle physicists can lead the way in a paradigm shift in scientific publishing to give everyone free access to research results.