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.
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 ...
