Read article 'Researchers unveil the PASER: a novel acceleration scheme'
Researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have used the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to demonstrate the feasib...
Read article 'LHC prepares for cooling while magnets pass the 1000 mark'
The first cryogenic feedbox designed to supply electricity to the superconducting magnets for one of eight arcs has been installed at Point 8 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read article 'Right on target: CNGS gets off to an excellent start'
Six years after its construction began, the CNGS facility at CERN has sent its first batch of neutrinos 732 km to Gran Sasso in Italy in a highly successful commissioning run.
Read article 'POSIPOL 2006 lines up options for ILC and CLIC'
Experts from around the world came to CERN to discuss the production of polarized positrons for future linear colliders, using the Compton back-scattering technique.
Read article 'EPAC’06 showcases the latest in accelerators'
EPAC’06: une vitrine pour les accélérateurs La belle ville historique d’Edimbourg, en Écosse, a constitué le cadre de la dixième conférence européenne su...
Read article 'The longest journey: the LHC dipoles arrive on time'
The 1232 superconducting dipole magnets are the key elements for the LHC. Their production by three different industry suppliers involved a bold contractual procedure, which has proved to be highly su...
Read article 'LHC dipole installation gets to half-way mark'
The installation of the 616th dipole for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 12 July marked the half-way point for the machine's 1232 dipole magnets.
Read article 'Japanese source starts lasing at 49 nm wavelength in VUV'
On 20 June, the SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS) prototype accelerator generated its first pulses at a wavelength of 49 nm in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region.
Read article 'LHC start-up confirmed for 2007'
First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will occur in November 2007, LHC project leader Lyn Evans told the 137th meeting of the CERN Council on 23 June.
Read article 'Pisa pushes new frontiers'
The island of Elba, off the coast of Tuscany, hosted the 10th Pisa meeting on frontier detectors, a quarter of a century since the meetings began. Giorgio Chiarelli reports.
