Read article 'UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays'
UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays
The recent success comes just one year after the facility first achieved energy recovery.
Read article 'UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays'
Read article 'US niobium-tin superconducting magnet reaches 200 T/m'
US niobium-tin superconducting magnet reaches 200 T/m
A focusing magnet based on niobium-tin superconductor, built by members of the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP), has reached the design gradient of 200 T/m.
Read article 'LHC restart impresses Council'
LHC restart impresses Council
At its 153rd session on 18 December, the CERN Council heard that the LHC had ended its first full period of operation two days earlier, following collisions at a total energy of 2.36 TeV – a world...
Read article 'Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles'
Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles
Gordon Fraser reviews in 2009 Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles.
Read article 'Protons are back in the LHC'
Protons are back in the LHC
During the last weekend of October, particles once again entered the LHC after the one-year interruption following the incident of September 2008, travelling through one sector in each direction – c...
Read article 'Science begins at SLAC’s new light source'
Science begins at SLAC’s new light source
The first experiments are now under way using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Read article 'NDCX-II project commencing at LBNL'
NDCX-II project commencing at LBNL
Construction is beginning on the second-generation Neutralized Drift Compression eXperiment (NDCX-II), a new high-current, modest-kinetic-energy accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (L...
Read article 'Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre opens'
Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre opens
The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre (HIT) celebrated its opening at the Heidelberg University Hospital on 2 November.
Read article 'Looking beyond the LHC'
Looking beyond the LHC
A CERN Theory Institute investigated the impact of early LHC data.
Read article 'US industry-built ILC cavity reaches 41 MV/m'
US industry-built ILC cavity reaches 41 MV/m
For the first time, a US-industry-made superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavity has reached and exceeded the accelerating gradient required for the envisioned International Linear Collider (ILC).
