Read article 'LHC luminosity upgrade accelerates'
CERN has recently implemented two important steps towards the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) – an upgrade that will increase the intensity of the LHC’s collisions significantly from the early 2020s....
Read article 'Europe enters the extreme X-ray era'
The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser will probe electronic, chemical and biological processes in unprecedented detail.
Read article 'The world’s longest superconducting linac'
The linac driving the European XFEL also serves as a prototype for a high-energy linear collider.
Read article 'FAIR forges its future'
Supernova explosions, neutron-star mergers and rare radioactive ions might not seem to have much connection to terrestrial matters. Yet, while the lightest elements were synthesised immediately after ...
Read article 'LHC back with a splash'
On 29 April, just after 8.00 p.m., the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began circulating beams of protons for the first time this year. Extensive technical and maintenance work was undertaken since its en...
Read article 'Workshop puts advanced accelerators on track'
Researchers working on advanced and novel accelerator technologies met at CERN on 25–28 April to draw up an international roadmap for future high-energy particle accelerators. Organised by the Inte...
Read article 'LHC cold and preparing for beam'
Following a longer than usual technical stop, which began in December last year to allow for the replacement of the CMS inner tracker, all eight sectors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been co...
Read article 'Crab cavities promise brighter collisions'
As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gears up for its 2017 restart, teams in the background at CERN and around the world are making rapid progress towards a major LHC upgrade due to be operational from ...
Read article 'Physics at its limits'
A 100 km-circumference collider would address many of the outstanding questions in modern particle physics.
Read article 'Chamonix event prepares for LHC’s future'
2016 was a remarkably successful year for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), marked by excellent peak performance, good availability and operational flexibility (CERN Courier December 2016 p5). Tar...
