Read article 'SESAME passes an important milestone at CERN'
The SESAME project – the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East – passed an important milestone at the beginning of April, with the complete assembly and su...
Read article 'Brookhaven ushers in a new bright era'
NSLS-II will offer 10,000 times the brightness of its predecessor.
Read article 'Chronicles of CMS: the saga of LS1'
A look at the vast amount of work done during the long shudown, and some of the challenges that arose.
Read article 'The LHC: a machine in training'
More than 10,000 tests need to be completed to prepare the LHC for a collision energy of 13 TeV.
Read article '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 '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'
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'
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 process to cool down the LHC continues in the final stage of the first long shutdown.
Read article '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.
