Accelerators Archives – Page 53 of 91

Knocking on the door again

The LHC's anti-clockwise beam transfer system was tested on 6 and 7 June.

CERN Courier Archives: 1959–2009

A selection of highlights from the past 50 years.

KEKB breaks luminosity record

A team working at the KEKB electron–positron collider at the KEK laboratory in Japan has broken the machine’s existing world record for luminosity by using new accelerator components calle...

Final magnet for sector 3-4 goes underground

The final magnet – a quadrupole short straight section – to refit sector 3-4 of the LHC was lowered into the tunnel and transported to its location on 30 April, two weeks after the 39th and fina...

BEPCII/BESIII accumulates 100 million ψ(2S) in Beijing

After five years of construction, the upgraded Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII) and the new Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) finished accumulating their first large data set of more than 100...

T2K beamline starts operation

On 23 April, the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment confirmed the first production of the neutrino beam by observing the muons produced by the proton beam in the neu...

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...

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...