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.
Read article 'Quadripôles: un transfert réussi vers l’industrie'
Le dernier quadripôle principal pour le LHC a été livré au CERN.
Read article 'SSS: le pari gagnant de la collaboration'
This article (in French) describes the assembly of the of the LHC Short Straight Sections (SSS), fruit of a collaboration between CERN and CNRS.
Read article 'Tungsten-crystal target boosts positron intensity at KEKB linac'
A new tungsten monocrystalline positron target has generated an intense positron beam at the injector linac of the KEK B-factory (KEKB).
Read article 'Serendipity at the Antiproton Decelerator opens the way to new antiproton chemistry'
Most experiments at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN involve laser or microwave studies of atoms such as antiprotonic helium and antihydrogen.
Read article 'Particle accelerators take up the fight against cancer'
Sixty years ago accelerator pioneer Robert Wilson published the paper in which he proposed using protons for cancer therapy. Ugo Amaldi and Gerhard Kraft describe how the field has since advanced, as ...
Read article 'New COMET brings a promising future to proton therapy'
PROSCAN, the proton-therapy facility at PSI in Switzerland is about to resume patient treatment after commissioning a new dedicated superconducting proton accelerator, COMET. This will take the projec...
Read article 'Hard Probes conference focuses on jet quenching'
The latest jet-quenching results were a major topic of discussion at the second conference dedicated to the use of hard probes for investigating the hot and dense quark–gluon matter that is produced...
Read article 'Cracow meeting looks forward to the LHC'
As preparations for the start-up of the LHC continue to gather pace, a meeting in Cracow gave physicists the opportunity to take time to look to the exciting physics in store.
Read article 'Laser-driven Particle Accelerators: New Sources of Energetic Particles and Radiation'
This issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A contains papers by leading experts, beginning with basic concepts in plasma accelerators and the status and evolution of plasma-wakefiel...
