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...
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.
