Read article 'Niobium-tin cavities for smaller accelerators'
High-frequency superconducting radio-frequency cavities made from niobium–tin alloy are more efficient than conventional niobium designs.
Read article 'How many protons collided in ATLAS in Run 2?'
The uncertainty of several ATLAS Run-1 measurements was dominated by systematic uncertainty on the integrated luminosity.
Read article 'A unique vacuum environment'
Paolo Chiggiato describes the unparalleled vacuum developments that underpin CERN’s science.
Read article 'Dream machine'
Muon colliders are both precision and discovery machines, but significant R&D is required before they can be considered candidates for a next collider.
Read article 'Energy efficiency – a new frontier'
Major savings in the energy consumption and cost of accelerators are there for the taking, with potential impact beyond particle physics.
Read article 'Upping the tempo on wakefield accelerators'
Experts from around the world met for the second ALEGRO workshop, to discuss advanced linear-collider concepts at the energy frontier.
Read article 'Particle colliders: accelerating innovation'
Around 100 delegates joined a co-innovation workshop in Liverpool to discuss the strategic R&D programme for a Future Circular Collider.
Read article 'BELLA sets new record for plasma acceleration'
Physicists used a novel scheme to channel 850 TW laser pulses through a 20 cm-long plasma, allowing electron beams to be accelerated to an energy of 7.8 GeV – almost double the previous record...
Read article 'Physicists digest Japan’s ILC statement'
The Japanese government has put on hold a decision about hosting the International Linear Collider.
Read article 'Physics Beyond Colliders initiative presents main findings'
Experiments have the potential to explore open questions in QCD and to search for hidden-sectors in which dark matter does not couple directly to Standard Model particles.
