Read article 'LHC prepares for final year of Run 2'
Since 4 December, around 500 technicians and engineers have been working flat-out to maintain and upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other parts of the CERN accelerator complex. The current y...
Read article 'Small accelerator promises big returns'
The CBETA multi-turn energy-recovery linac aims to combine the best of linear and circular accelerators
Read article 'International committee backs 250 GeV ILC'
That is half the energy set out five years ago in the ILC’s technical design report (TDR), shortening the length of the previous design (31 km) by around a third and slashing its cost by up to 40%.
Read article 'SESAME sees first light'
At 10.50 a.m. on 22 November 2017, the third-generation light source SESAME in Jordan produced its first X-ray photons, signalling the start of the regional laboratory’s experimental program. Resea...
Read article 'The long road to Linac4'
CERN's newest accelerator is soon to join the LHC injection chain
Read article 'Exploring the physics case for a very-high-energy electron–proton collider'
Rapid progress is being made in novel acceleration techniques.
Read article 'The twists and turns of a successful year for the LHC'
On 11 December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is scheduled to complete its 2017 proton-physics run and go into standby for its winter shutdown and maintenance programme. With the LHC having surpasse...
Read article 'Charting a course for advanced accelerators'
Progress in experimental particle physics is driven by advances in accelerators. The conversion of storage rings into colliders in the 1970s is one example, another is the use of superconducting magne...
Read article 'Xenon beams light path to gamma factory'
On 14 September, CERN injected a beam of partially ionised xenon atoms into the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and kept it circulating for a short period. The successful demonstration, carried out by ...
Read article 'CLEAR prospects for accelerator research'
A new user facility for accelerator R&D, the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR), started operation in August and is ready to provide beam for experiments. CLEAR evolved from the...
