Read article '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.
Read article 'Lead ions knock at the LHC’s door'
There was jubilation in the CERN Control Centre late in the afternoon on 12 November.
Read article '…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.
Read article '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).
Read article '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.
Read article '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.
Read article 'Accelerator experts meet in Albuquerque'
Robert Garnett selects highlights from PAC ’07.
Read article 'Brookhaven and CERN: the AGS and the PS'
Ernest Courant recalls the early days of big synchrotrons.
Read article 'Lee Teng: a passion for the accelerator fast lane'
Résumé Lee Teng: une carrière passionnée dans les accélérateurs Cette année, la Société américaine de physique a décerné le prix Robert ...
Read article 'FLASH makes laser pulses at design energy'
On the evening of 4 October, the team in the control room at FLASH, the soft X-ray, free-electron laser facility at DESY, observed lasing at a wavelength of 7 nm for the first time.
