Read article 'Machine powers down until 2021'
The Large Hadron Collider’s 2018 proton physics run came to an end on 24 October, having accumulated an impressive dataset. The integrated luminosity delivered to both the ATLAS and CMS experiments...
Read article 'Plasma lenses promise smaller accelerators'
An international team has made an advance towards more compact particle accelerators, demonstrating that beams can be focused via a technique called active plasma lensing without reducing the beam qua...
Read article 'Meet the Extremely Brilliant Source'
The first high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron X-ray source takes shape at the ESRF in Grenoble
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...
