Accelerators Archives – Page 57 of 89

The team at SPIN@COSY looks inside a spin resonance

The SPIN@COSY polarized-beam team has found striking new results while studying the spin-manipulation of polarized deuterons at the Cooler Synchrotron (COSY) at the Forschungszentrum in Jülich.

Constructing HERA: rising to the challenge

Dieter Trines looks back at the challenge of building HERA - the first and only electron–proton collider based on a superconducting-magnet ring.

Lead ions knock at the LHC’s door

There was jubilation in the CERN Control Centre late in the afternoon on 12 November.

…and looks to the LHC start-up and beyond

CERN director-general Robert Aymar, in his end-of-year status account to Council, reported on a year of progress at the LHC, which is due to start operation in the summer.

J-PARC accelerates protons to 3GeV

On 31 October a team at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) accelerated a proton beam to the design energy of 3 GeV in the new Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron (RCS).

Second LHC transfer line passes beam test with flying colours

Three years after the initial commissioning of the SPS-to-LHC transfer line, TI 8, the second transfer line, TI 2, has passed its first test with beam.

Robert Aymar seals the final main magnet interconnection

At a brief ceremony on 7 November deep in the LHC tunnel CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar, sealed the last interconnection between the collider's main magnet systems.