Read article 'First beam in Linac4 DTL'
Work progresses on Linac4, the linear accelerator foreseen to take over from the current Linac2 as injector to the PS Booster. On 5 August, the first drift-tube linac (DTL) tank saw beams at 12 MeV
Read article 'Budker Institute’s booster gets going at Brookhaven'
The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) is currently being commissioned at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Read article 'Countdown to physics'
Following the restart of the first elements in CERN’s accelerator complex in June, beams are now being delivered to experiments from the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and the PS Booster.
Read article 'Accelerators come into focus in Dresden'
Résumé Les accélérateurs à l’honneur à Dresde La Conférence internationale sur les accélérateurs de particules (IPAC), associant sessions pléni&...
Read article 'A shining light in the Middle East'
CERN was conceived in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when two ambitions came together – to enable construction of scientific facilities that were beyond the means of individual countries, and to fo...
Read article 'LS1: beams are back in the Proton Synchrotron'
Beams of protons are back in CERN’s Proton Synchrotron (PS), having circulated around the accelerator on 20 June for the first time in more than 15 months.
Read article 'CEBAF delivers first beams following upgrade'
On 7 May, the newly upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) delivered the first electron beams to its new experimental complex at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Jeff...
Read article 'Laser experiment simulates supernova'
Supernova explosions, triggered when the fuel within a star reignites or its core collapses, launch a shock wave that sweeps through a few light-years of space in only a few hundred years.
Read article 'Une introduction à L’aventure du grand collisionneur LHC: Du big bang au boson de Higgs'
Carlos Lourenço reviews (in French) in 2014 Une introduction à L’aventure du grand collisionneur LHC: Du big bang au boson de Higgs.
Read article 'LS1: reawakening the accelerators'
CERN’s accelerator complex is gradually restarting, more than a year after the start of the first long shutdown (LS1). On 4 April, a team switched on the proton source and a week later re-c...
