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.
China and Europe bid for post-LHC collider
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in the summer of 2012 set particle physics on a new course of exploration.
A giant leap for physics
A 100 km supercollider at CERN would open a new era in fundamental exploration
First beam at SLAC plasma facility
FACET-II, a new facility for accelerator research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, has produced its first electrons. FACET-II is an upgrade to the Facility for Advanced Accelerat...
Halfway to high luminosity
Gathering at CERN for the 8th annual meeting of the HL-LHC
The tale of a billion-trillion protons
Linac2, the machine that feeds CERN’s accelerator complex with protons, has entered a well-deserved retirement after 40 years of service.
