Read article 'LHC surpasses design luminosity with heavy ions'
Résumé Le LHC dépasse la luminosité nominale pour les ions lourds Le LHC a terminé l’année 2015 par une exploitation avec des ions lourds. Pour la première foi...
Read article 'PS beam extraction becomes more efficient'
Résumé L’extraction des faisceaux du PS devient plus efficace Depuis septembre 2015, les faisceaux de protons utilisés pour les expériences de physique avec cible fixe aupr&#...
Read article 'High Luminosity LHC moves forward'
October 2015 was a turning point for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project, marking the end of the European-funded HiLumi LHC Design Study activities, and the transition to the construction phase, ...
Read article 'A new record for the RMC test magnet at CERN'
High magnetic fields are the Holy Grail of high-energy accelerators. The strength of the dipole field determines the maximum energy the beam can achieve on a given orbit, and large-aperture, high-grad...
Read article 'A wealth of data for physics from the LHC: 1400 colliding bunches per beam and counting'
Thanks to the work done during the LHC machine-development period and technical stop at the end of the summer, the LHC is enjoying a stable-intensity ramp-up period, which is giving experiments precio...
Read article 'Positrons catch a wave at SLAC'
In a study reported in Nature, a team working at the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET) at SLAC has shown that the high electric-field gradients possible in plasma can be har...
Read article 'Inventing our future accelerator'
Can you imagine that electrons Are planets circling their suns? Space exploration, wars, elections And hundreds of computer tongues Translation by A Seryi of a 1920 poem by Valery Bryusov, “The ...
Read article 'Particle Accelerators: From Big Bang Physics to Hadron Therapy'
Christine Sutton reviews in 2015 Particle Accelerators: From Big Bang Physics to Hadron Therapy.
Read article 'High Gradient Accelerating Structure'
This proceedings volume, for the symposium in honour of Juwen Wang’s 70th anniversary, is dedicated to his many important achievements in the field of accelerator physics.
Read article 'CERN superconducting dipole-magnet model reaches record performance levels'
On 16 June, an 11 T superconducting dipole-magnet model manufactured at CERN for the High-Luminosity LHC project reached record performance levels in tests in hall SM18. Its magnetic-field i...
