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.
Read article 'Cyclotron lab reconfigures for better service'
Following a summer shutdown, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University is looking ahead to new experiments with fast and reaccelerated beams.
Read article '40 MHz ball reveals sticky fingers'
The LHC, with its "two in one" magnet structure cooled by superfluid helium for operation at 1.9 K, is its own prototype.
Read article 'The LHC: a new high energy photon collider'
A look at the LHC's potential for photon-induced interactions.
Read article 'Major milestone for ‘mighty magnet’ as it goes the distance'
The LHC is not yet up and running, but already physicists and engineers in Europe, Japan and the US are working towards upgrades for the machine.
Read article 'IHEP and CERN collaborate well on beam-loss monitors'
The LHC beam-loss monitoring (BLM) system is the key to protecting the machine against dangerous beam "losses" of this kind.
