US proposal teases FCC-ee energy boost
Accelerator physicists in the US have proposed an alternative approach to the design of the proposed Future Circular electron-positron Collider using energy-recovery linacs.
Why CLIC?
Steinar Stapnes considers the past, present and future of CERN’s proposed Compact Linear Collider.
Superconductivity heats up in Dresden
A better understanding of the role of magnetic flux trapping and impurities for RF losses has pushed state-of-the-art niobium to near its theoretical limit.
Cooling experts head to Siberia
Beam-cooling results from the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment were shown at COOL'19.
Accelerating magnet technology
Superconducting magnet technology has fuelled some of the greatest discoveries in high-energy physics and is at the core of existing and next-generation circular particle accelerators, writes Luca Bot...
Study comes full EuroCirCol
The meeting marked the final event of the Horizon 2020 project to produce a conceptual design study for a 100 TeV circular hadron collider.
The greatest lepton collider
LEP was the highest energy e+e– collider ever built, with levels of precision that remain unsurpassed in accelerator physics. Former CERN director of accelerators Steve Myers tells LEP’s story fro...
Tunnelling for physics
John Osborne, Alexandra Tudora and Ben Swatton survey the geological, environmental and technical constraints of a post-LHC collider.
Dipole marks path to future collider
Researchers in the US have demonstrated an advanced accelerator dipole magnet with a field of 14.1 T.
Tricky component? Use 3D printing…
Embedded radio-frequency (RF) cavities such as those featured in spiral-shaped cooling channels are one example.
