Read article 'Rolf Widerøe: a giant in the history of accelerators'
Aashild Sørheim's book presents new documentary evidence on the wartime life of an engineer who had a seminal impact on accelerator physics, writes Kurt Hübner.
Read article 'HL-LHC superconducting quadrupole successfully tested'
Advanced niobium-tin accelerator magnets for the LHC upgrade developed at US labs and CERN are also carving a path towards future energy-frontier colliders.
Read article 'Protons herald new cardiac treatment'
In a clinical world-first, a proton beam has been used to treat a patient with a ventricular tachycardia, which causes unsynchronised electrical impulses that prevent the heart from pumping blood.
Read article 'Bang, beam, bump, boson'
Bringing the LHC to life and steering it beyond its design performance has been a rollercoaster journey for those at the helm, describes Mike Lamont.
Read article 'Alvin Tollestrup: 1924-2020'
Tollestrup was one of the world’s most influential modern physicists, writes George Zweig.
Read article 'MICE demonstrates muon cooling'
Physicists have taken a step towards demonstrating the technical feasibility of a muon collider.
Read article 'Linacs pushed to the limit in Chamonix'
Linac applications discussed at High Gradient 2019 ranged from CLIC to XFELs and medical accelerators.
Read article 'CLIC most flexible option for Europe, study leaders contend'
CLIC study leaders respond to preprint comparing CLIC with a Future Circular Collider.
Read article 'Brookhaven to host Electron-Ion Collider'
If approved, the new machine will reuse infrastructure from the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider.
Read article 'CERN’s proton synchrotron turns 60'
A colloquium was held at CERN on 25 November 2019.
