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.
Read article 'China neutron source sees first beam'
In late August, the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) produced its first neutron beam, representing an important milestone for the $280 million project. The world’s fourth pulsed spallation neu...
Read article 'Injecting new life into the LHC'
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most famous and powerful of all CERN’s machines, colliding intense beams of protons at an energy of 13 TeV. But its success relies on a series of smaller mac...
Read article 'ITER’s massive magnets enter production'
As Matthew Chalmers reported in 2017, completion of the first toroidal-field coil for ITER demonstrates niobium-tin superconductor technology on a gigantic scale.
