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...
Read article 'CERN leads the way with novel beam extraction'
A more efficient technique is put through its paces.
Read article 'Mobilizing for the LHC'
Investigations following the incident in Sector 3-4 of the LHC on 19 September have confirmed that the cause was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets
Read article 'MW linacs could supply medical isotopes'
In late 2007, owing to an extended shutdown of Canada's National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River, North America experienced a critical shortage of the medical isotope molybdenum-99.
Read article 'An Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators (2nd edition)'
This text offers a concise and coherent introduction to the physics of particle accelerators, with attention being paid to the design of an accelerator for use as an experimental tool.
Read article 'Breaking ground for Linac 4'
Civil engineering work has started on Linac 4, a major new renovation project for the CERN accelerator complex.
Read article 'CERN inaugurates the LHC'
The LHC inauguration ceremony officially marked the end of 24 years of conception, development, construction and assembly of the biggest and most sophisticated scientific tool in the world.
Read article 'SRF technology comes full circle'
Nearly a half-century ago, researchers at Stanford University began investigating superconducting RF (SRF) acceleration.
Read article 'ALBA: a synchrotron light source for Spain'
Progress of a new, third-generation light source
Read article 'LHC first beam: a day to remember'
At a little before 10.30 a.m. on 10 September, two dots on a colour screen in the CERN Control Centre (CCC) marked the successful first complete turn of protons clockwise round the LHC. It was less t...
