Accelerators Archives – Page 6 of 32

Circular colliders eye Higgs self-coupling

Alain Blondel and Panagiotis Charitos report on developments at the third FCC Physics and Experiments Workshop.

The machine–detector interface for a muon collider

Sketching out a muon collider

A high-energy muon collider is receiving renewed attention as a possible frontier-exploration machine.

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EPS announces 2020 accelerator awards

The EPS-AG prizes are awarded every three years for outstanding achievements in the accelerator field.

Joint German-Armenian internship in accelerator physics

Yerevan hosts early-career accelerator internship

The goal of the German-Armenian programme is to integrate accelerator physics into undergraduate courses and provide an early experience of international cooperation.

Rolf Widerøe operates one of his betatrons in 1953

Rolf Widerøe: a giant in the history of accelerators

Aashild Sørheim's book presents new documentary evidence on the wartime life of an engineer who had a seminal impact on accelerator physics, writes Kurt Hübner.

The quadrupole magnet being prepared for a test at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

HL-LHC superconducting quadrupole successfully tested

Advanced niobium-tin accelerator magnets for the LHC upgrade developed at US labs and CERN are also carving a path towards future energy-frontier colliders.

The 80 m-circumference synchrotron at CNAO

Protons herald new cardiac treatment

In a clinical world-first, a proton beam has been used to treat a patient with a ventricular tachycardia, which causes unsynchronised electrical impulses that prevent the heart from pumping blood.