Read article 'One billion J/ψ events in Beijing'
In a 40-day run ending on 22 May, the Institute of High-Energy Physics in China accumulated a total of 1.3 billion J/ψ events at the upgraded Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII) and Beijing ...
Read article 'LHCf: bringing cosmic collisions down to Earth'
Data from the LHC are providing input for models used to measure the highest-energy cosmic rays.
Read article 'CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. The European Physical Journal H 36 (4).'
Christine Sutton reviews in 2012 CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. The European Physical Journal H 36 (4).
Read article 'Ramping up to higher luminosity'
After a flying start, with the first stable beams at the new energy of 4 TeV on 5 April, the LHC successfully operated with 1380 bunches per beam – the maximum planned for 2012 – on 18 April.
Read article 'LHC yields data rapidly at new collision energy of 8 TeV'
At 12.38 a.m. on 5 April, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams" as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC’s four interaction points.
Read article '4 TeV: the goal for 2012'
Running the LHC at 4 TeV per beam in 2012 was a key outcome of this year's LHC Performance workshop in Chamonix.
Read article 'NSRRC considers ultrafast X-ray source'
With a view to sustaining a large-scale facility at a time of worldwide economic crisis and soaring energy costs and to provide efficient use of beam time, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research ...
Read article 'GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy'
A particle accelerator has been successfully coupled to a nuclear reactor for the first time at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre.
Read article 'Steps forward for new long-baseline experiment'
The collaboration working to design the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in the US has recently made major decisions about the experimental configuration, while the collaboration itself contin...
Read article 'Medical-isotope cyclotron designs go full circle'
Machines made in industry are becoming smaller.
