Read article 'Nobel work shines a light on particle physics'
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three researchers for groundbreaking inventions in laser physics. Half the prize went to Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in the US for his wo...
Read article 'First beam at IOTA for accelerator research'
In late August, a beam of electrons successfully circulated for the first time through a new particle accelerator at Fermilab in the US. The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA), a 40 m-circumf...
Read article 'AWAKE accelerates electrons in world first'
The AWAKE experiment at CERN has passed an important milestone towards compact, high-energy accelerators for applications in future high-energy physics experiments. Reporting in Nature on 29 August, ...
Read article 'Electron–ion collider on the horizon'
The National Academy of Sciences in the US finds a compelling scientific case for an advanced collider that would reveal how visible matter emerges from fundamental quarks and gluons.
Read article 'Lessons from the accelerator frontier'
Lucio Rossi recounts how, in contrast to the LHC, HL-LHC has been a partnership with other institutions since the very beginning.
Read article 'Procurement at the forefront of technology'
The LHC would not exsist without good organization, innovative procurement and careful oversight
Read article 'CERN marks beginning of a luminous future'
A ceremony at CERN on 15 June celebrated the start of civil-engineering works for the high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The upgrade will allow about 10 times more data to...
Read article 'Muons accelerated in Japan'
The work paves the way for a compact muon linac that would enable precision measurements of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the electric dipole moment.
Read article 'Jefferson Lab inaugurates upgraded CEBAF'
The $338 million upgrade has tripled CEBAF’s original operating energy.
Read article 'Muons cooled for action'
The MICE collaboration has demonstrated muon ionisation-cooling, paving the way for a muon collider
