Read article 'Holding the key to LHC Run 2'
Holding the key to LHC Run 2
On 12 January, the key to the LHC was symbolically handed back to the operations team.
Read article 'Holding the key to LHC Run 2'
Read article 'What We Would Like LHC to Give Us'
What We Would Like LHC to Give Us
This book is the proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2012, 50th Course, held in Erice on 23 June–2 July 2012.
Read article 'The LHC gears up for season 2'
The LHC gears up for season 2
As the re-starting of the LHC approaches, teams at CERN continue their preparations.
Read article 'Two teams take big steps forward in plasma acceleration'
Two teams take big steps forward in plasma acceleration
The high electric-field gradients that can be set up in plasma have offered the promise of compact particle accelerators since the late 1970s.
Read article 'The giant slowly awakes'
The giant slowly awakes
The process to cool down the LHC continues in the final stage of the first long shutdown.
Read article 'How bright is the LHC?'
How bright is the LHC?
The absolute luminosity at a particle collider is not only an important figure of merit for the machine, it is also a necessity for determining the absolute cross-sections for reaction processes.
Read article 'ILC-type cryomodule makes the grade'
ILC-type cryomodule makes the grade
For the first time, the gradient specification of the International Linear Collider (ILC) design study of 31.5 MV/m has been achieved on average across an entire ILC-type cryomodule made of ILC-grade...
Read article 'RHIC’s new gold record'
RHIC’s new gold record
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory completed its 14th physics run in July, during which gold-ion beams were brought into collision at both low (7.3 GeV/nucl...
Read article 'Accelerator Physics at the Tevatron Collider'
Accelerator Physics at the Tevatron Collider
Frank Zimmermann reviews in 2014 Accelerator Physics at the Tevatron Collider.
Read article 'Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology: Volume 6 – Accelerators for High Intensity Beams'
Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology: Volume 6 – Accelerators for High Intensity Beams
As particle accelerators strive for ever-increasing performance, high-intensity particle beams are becoming one of the critical demands from a majority of users – whether for proton, electron or ion...
