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...
Read article 'Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering (2nd edition)'
With more than 2000 equations, 300 illustrations and 500 graphs and tables, it is intended as a vade mecum for professional engineers and physicists engaged in the design and operation of modern ac...
Read article 'LS1: on the home straight'
When the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC on 14 February last year, it marked the beginning of the first long shutdown, LS1, not only for the LHC but for all of ...
Read article 'New results mark progress towards polarized ion beams in laser-induced acceleration'
The field of laser-induced relativistic plasmas and, in particular, laser-driven particle acceleration, has undergone impressive progress in recent years.
Read article 'Heavy-ion synchrotron prepares for FAIR'
Elaborate alterations to the Schwerionensynchrotron (SIS) – the heavy-ion synchrotron at GSI – have finished after one year’s work.
Read article 'New recipes for stopping neutrons'
Neutrons are a common by-product of particle-accelerator operations.
Read article 'First negative-hydrogen-ion beam accelerated at Linac4'
On 14 November, a beam of negative hydrogen ions was successfully accelerated for the first time to 3 MeV in Linac4.
Read article 'HiLumi LHC design study moves towards HL-LHC'
When the CERN Council approved the updated European Strategy for Particle Physics at a special meeting in Brussels last May, it recognized the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project as the top priority ...
Read article 'EuCARD comes to a successful end'
The EuCARD project ends with most of its ambitious objectives fulfilled.
Read article 'Fermilab gears up for an intense future'
A series of upgrades will deliver many more protons.
