Read article 'CERN announces new date for LHC start-up…'
Speaking at the 142nd session of the CERN Council on 22 June, CERN’s director-general, Robert Aymar, announced that the LHC will start up in May 2008, taking the first steps towards studying physic...
Read article 'Harnessing the power of the plasma wakefield'
Chan Joshi reviews recent progress with plasma-based accelerators.
Read article 'LHC magnet tests: the Indian connection'
Vinod Chohan looks back at the results of a unique collaboration.
Read article 'The last dipole makes its descent'
On 26 April, the last superconducting magnet for the LHC descended into the accelerator tunnel.
Read article 'First LHC sector reaches 1.9 K'
The first sector of the LHC to be cooled reached its operating temperature of 1.9 K for the first time on 10 April.
Read article 'Light source gets off to a good start with first electron bunch'
Commissioning of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC began on 5 April when physicists and engineers started up the electron-injector system for the first time, and created and accelerated ...
Read article 'The LHC: illuminating the high-energy frontier'
During the next few years, discoveries at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will revolutionize our understanding of matter, forces and space. John Ellis looks at what might lie in store.
Read article 'ICFA releases ILC design report'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) has released the Reference Design Report (RDR) for a future International Linear Collider (ILC)
Read article 'SLAC demonstrates plasma ‘afterburner’'
A team of researchers at SLAC has shown that plasma acceleration can dramatically boost the energy of particles over a short distance.
Read article 'Diamond welcomes its first scientific users'
The Diamond Light Source, the UK's new synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire, has welcomed its first scientific users after opening its doors for business in February.
