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.
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...
