Read article 'PETRA III stores its first positron beam'
DESY's new third-generation synchrotron radiation source, PETRA III, accelerated its first beam on 16 April. At 10.14 a.m. the positron bunches were injected and stored in the 2.3 km accelerator f...
Read article 'FFAGs enter the applications era'
After a series of preliminary tests held on 26–27 February the Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University (KURRI) received a national licence to conduct experiments for an accelerator-driven su...
Read article 'First sector is closer to cool down…'
Installation of the new helium pressure-release system for the LHC is progressing well.
Read article '…while the injection chain sees beam again'
On 18 March beam commissioning started in Linac 2, the first link in CERN's accelerator complex.
Read article 'LHC consolidation work proceeds apace'
The consolidation campaign for the LHC, which aims to ensure a safe final commissioning and reliable running of the collider is now well under way.
Read article 'Jefferson Lab starts its 12 GeV physics upgrade'
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, has awarded four contracts as it begins a six-year construction project to upgrade...
Read article 'LHeC: novel designs for electron–quark scattering'
A possible option to allow collisions with electrons at the LHC.
Read article 'CERN firms up the LHC schedule'
In a workshop in Chamonix on 2–6 February, members of the LHC accelerator and experimental teams, as well as CERN’s management, met to formulate a realistic timetable to have the LHC running safe...
Read article 'Protons reach the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Hall'
The Main Ring at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) has reached a new milestone with the successful extraction of a proton beam to the Hadron Experimental Hall and then to the beam...
Read article '…and projects to upgrade the NSCL make excellent progress'
Despite the winter weather, including more than 50 cm of snow in December, construction continued on the new office wing and the new experimental area for research with stopped and reaccelerated rare...
