A unique vacuum environment
Paolo Chiggiato describes the unparalleled vacuum developments that underpin CERN’s science.
Dream machine
Muon colliders are both precision and discovery machines, but significant R&D is required before they can be considered candidates for a next collider.
Energy efficiency – a new frontier
Major savings in the energy consumption and cost of accelerators are there for the taking, with potential impact beyond particle physics.
Upping the tempo on wakefield accelerators
Experts from around the world met for the second ALEGRO workshop, to discuss advanced linear-collider concepts at the energy frontier.
Particle colliders: accelerating innovation
Around 100 delegates joined a co-innovation workshop in Liverpool to discuss the strategic R&D programme for a Future Circular Collider.
BELLA sets new record for plasma acceleration
Physicists used a novel scheme to channel 850 TW laser pulses through a 20 cm-long plasma, allowing electron beams to be accelerated to an energy of 7.8 GeV – almost double the previous record...
Physicists digest Japan’s ILC statement
The Japanese government has put on hold a decision about hosting the International Linear Collider.
Physics Beyond Colliders initiative presents main findings
Experiments have the potential to explore open questions in QCD and to search for hidden-sectors in which dark matter does not couple directly to Standard Model particles.
A foremost accelerator physicist: Yong Ho Chin 1958–2019
A leading theoretical accelerator physicist and chair of the beam dynamics panel of the International Committee for Future Accelerators.
Report reveals full reach of LHC programme
The High-Luminosity LHC, scheduled to operate from 2026, will increase the instantaneous luminosity of the LHC by at least a factor of five beyond its initial design luminosity.
