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BELLA will boost plasma accelerator research

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is set to explore further the high-gradient acceleration of electron beams using ultra-short pulse lasers with the construction of a new facility – BELLA, the B...

UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays

The recent success comes just one year after the facility first achieved energy recovery.

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.

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...

Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles

Gordon Fraser reviews in 2009 Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles.

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...

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.

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...