Read article 'LHC hardware commissioning continues to make solid progress'
Commissioning the LHC is making steady progress towards the target of achieving a complete cool down by the middle of June, allowing the first injection of beams soon after.
Read article 'An Indian dream come true'
India’s accelerator pioneers began to build the Calcutta cyclotron in the early 1970s but soon found that the industrial infrastructure was not geared up to provide the necessary level of technology...
Read article 'Brookhaven laboratory develops stochastic cooling for RHIC'
Accelerator physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a way to apply the technique of stochastic cooling to the beams in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
Read article 'Teams mark final fitting of warm magnets'
The LHC is well known for its hundreds of superconducting magnet assemblies, but it will also use 154 normally conducting "warm" magnets.
Read article '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.
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.
