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...
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...
Meet the Extremely Brilliant Source
The first high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron X-ray source takes shape at the ESRF in Grenoble
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...
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...
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, ...
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.
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.
Procurement at the forefront of technology
The LHC would not exsist without good organization, innovative procurement and careful oversight
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...
