China and Europe bid for post-LHC collider
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in the summer of 2012 set particle physics on a new course of exploration.
A giant leap for physics
A 100 km supercollider at CERN would open a new era in fundamental exploration
First beam at SLAC plasma facility
FACET-II, a new facility for accelerator research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, has produced its first electrons. FACET-II is an upgrade to the Facility for Advanced Accelerat...
Halfway to high luminosity
Gathering at CERN for the 8th annual meeting of the HL-LHC
The tale of a billion-trillion protons
Linac2, the machine that feeds CERN’s accelerator complex with protons, has entered a well-deserved retirement after 40 years of service.
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...
