Read article 'SSS: le pari gagnant de la collaboration'
This article (in French) describes the assembly of the of the LHC Short Straight Sections (SSS), fruit of a collaboration between CERN and CNRS.
Read article 'Tungsten-crystal target boosts positron intensity at KEKB linac'
A new tungsten monocrystalline positron target has generated an intense positron beam at the injector linac of the KEK B-factory (KEKB).
Read article 'Serendipity at the Antiproton Decelerator opens the way to new antiproton chemistry'
Most experiments at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN involve laser or microwave studies of atoms such as antiprotonic helium and antihydrogen.
Read article 'Particle accelerators take up the fight against cancer'
Sixty years ago accelerator pioneer Robert Wilson published the paper in which he proposed using protons for cancer therapy. Ugo Amaldi and Gerhard Kraft describe how the field has since advanced, as ...
Read article 'New COMET brings a promising future to proton therapy'
PROSCAN, the proton-therapy facility at PSI in Switzerland is about to resume patient treatment after commissioning a new dedicated superconducting proton accelerator, COMET. This will take the projec...
Read article 'Hard Probes conference focuses on jet quenching'
The latest jet-quenching results were a major topic of discussion at the second conference dedicated to the use of hard probes for investigating the hot and dense quark–gluon matter that is produced...
Read article 'Cracow meeting looks forward to the LHC'
As preparations for the start-up of the LHC continue to gather pace, a meeting in Cracow gave physicists the opportunity to take time to look to the exciting physics in store.
Read article 'Laser-driven Particle Accelerators: New Sources of Energetic Particles and Radiation'
This issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A contains papers by leading experts, beginning with basic concepts in plasma accelerators and the status and evolution of plasma-wakefiel...
Read article 'Linear Collider Physics in the New Millennium'
This book contains articles by experts on many of the most important topics on which the electron-positron linear collider will focus.
Read article 'Wakefield exceeds 1 GeV in 3.3 cm'
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), together with colleagues from the University of Oxford , have accelerated electrons to more than 1 GeV in only 3.3 cm. This i...
