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.
Read article 'Revamped HIE-ISOLDE serves experiments'
CERN’s long-running radioactive-ion-beam facility ISOLDE, which produces beams for a wide range of scientific communities, has recently been upgraded to allow higher-energy beams. In July, the secon...
Read article 'Powering the field forward'
Particle physicists try to understand the environment that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang by studying the behaviour of particles at high energies. Early studies relied on cosmic rays...
Read article 'Souped up RF'
Behind the size, complexity and physics goals of particle accelerators such as the LHC lies a simple physics principle worked out by Maxwell more than 150 years ago: when a charged particle passes th...
Read article 'Superconductors and particle physics entwined'
Superconductivity is a mischievous phenomenon. Countless superconducting materials were discovered following Onnes’ 1911 breakthrough, but none with the right engineering properties. Even today, mor...
Read article 'Taming high-temperature superconductivity'
After 30 years, a theory is within reach for high-T superconductors.
Read article 'Celebrating a super partnership'
The virtuous spiral between high-energy physics and superconductivity is never ending, says Lucio Rossi.
Read article 'Accelerator experts meet in Copenhagen'
8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark
Read article 'Physics resumes at LHC'
First stable beams in the LHC were declared on 23 May, just 25 days after the first beam was injected and almost three weeks ahead of schedule. Since then, interleaved with physics operation and remai...
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....
