Read article 'European XFEL project passes milestones'
On 3 September, the tunnel-boring machine TULA – for TUnnel for Laser – broke through the wall of its reception shaft to complete the first 480 m of the tunnel system for the European XFEL proje...
Read article 'Fermilab constructs accelerator test facility'
When complete, the prototype accelerator will comprise six cryomodules like this first example. Each weighs about 8 tonnes and contains eight SRF cavities.
Read article 'Jefferson Lab goes into the ultraviolet'
The free-electron laser (FEL) at Jefferson Lab has produced its first beams at ultraviolet wavelengths.
Read article 'Bunch trains lead towards target luminosity'
Three weeks of intense machine development on the LHC came to a satisfying conclusion on the night of 21 September with the final validation of the machine-protection systems for operation with "bunc...
Read article 'The LHC gets set for more luminosity'
Recent work by the operations team at the LHC has focused on pushing the machine’s performance towards higher luminosity and into new territory in terms of stored beam power.
Read article 'FLASH is in full swing again'
On 2 September, user operation resumed at the FLASH free-electron laser (FEL) at DESY in Hamburg after a major upgrade that boosted its energy to 1.2 GeV and its wavelength to 4.45 nm.
Read article 'PETRA III begins research operations'
DESY’s new X-ray source, PETRA III, has begun operating for the international scientific community, with the first external users welcomed at the third-generation synchrotron source.
Read article 'JINR and CERN begin a new phase of collaboration'
Equipment destined for a new project at JINR, Dubna, has been shipped from CERN.
Read article 'Electrons signal a world first for EMMA'
On Tuesday 22 June at 10.37 p.m. an electron beam passed for the first time through four sectors of EMMA, the prototype that has been built at the UK's Daresbury Laboratory to test the concept of th...
Read article 'Multibunch injection provides a quick fill'
Beam commissioning at the LHC continues to result in increasing luminosity for the experiments.
