Read article 'US looks to new rare-isotope science facility'
A new heavy-ion linear accelerator based in the US would provide the opportunity to tackle directly the current challenges arising from investigations of nuclear science.
Read article 'MEGAPIE leads the way to waste transmutation'
A high-power proton beam and a special target have produced a high-power neutron source at PSI, with potential for the transmutation of radioactive waste.
Read article 'Zurich workshop faces the LHC’s precision challenge'
With Switzerland's reputation for exactitude, Zurich was the ideal place for scientists to discuss high precision for hard processes at LHC in this last year's workshop.
Read article 'CMS: a super solenoid is ready for business'
In the spring of 2007 the powerful superconducting solenoid for the CMS experiment had passed its commissioning tests with flying colours and was ready for routine operation.
Read article 'J-PARC linac accelerates hydrogen ions up to 181 MeV design value'
On 24 January the linac for the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) successfully accelerated a beam of negative hydrogen ions up to 181 MeV, the design energy for Phase I of the projec...
Read article 'U70 proton synchrotron goes ahead with stochastic extraction'
The new advanced slow stochastic extraction (SSE) system at the U70, the 70 GeV proton synchrotron at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, has operated successfully during normal...
Read article 'LUMI’06 takes strides towards LHC upgrade'
The LUMI'06 workshop, which took place in Valencia, brought together experts from Europe, Japan and the US to review scenarios for increasing the LHC's luminosity.
Read article 'LHC on course for 2007 start-up'
As the final countdown begins towards the scheduled start-up of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN later this year, work on the machine and the experiments has seen a series of achievements during the ...
Read article 'BEPCII makes progress towards switch-on'
The BEPCII project, a major upgrade and natural extension of the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPC), has passed an important milestone with beam now circulating in the outer ring and the sync...
Read article 'NSCL reveals plans for $500 million upgrade'
A detailed white paper published on 7 December outlines plans for a capability upgrade of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) located at Michigan State University.
