Read article 'LHC start-up confirmed for 2007'
First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will occur in November 2007, LHC project leader Lyn Evans told the 137th meeting of the CERN Council on 23 June.
Read article 'Pisa pushes new frontiers'
The island of Elba, off the coast of Tuscany, hosted the 10th Pisa meeting on frontier detectors, a quarter of a century since the meetings began. Giorgio Chiarelli reports.
Read article 'FLASH produces the shortest wavelength yet'
On 26 April, the vacuum-ultraviolet and soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility at DESY generated pulses at the shortest wavelength yet, using electron bunches supplied by the TESLA Test Facilit...
Read article 'Canadian modules take up position at LHC'
As the many pieces of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments come together at CERN, Canada's contributions to the project are moving into their final positions.
Read article 'First results for the VUV-FEL radiation source'
The first measuring period for external users at the vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser (VUV-FEL), the new ultraviolet and X-ray radiation source at DESY, ended successfully on 27 February.
Read article 'PS and SPS accelerators are back in business'
After a year of renovation and construction, CERN's accelerator complex is once again beginning to deliver different beams at a variety of energies.
Read article 'Closed-loop technology speeds up beam control'
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab and CERN have together developed a feedback-control system that is already speeding up operations at RHIC and should prove invaluable in commissioning the LHC....
Read article 'Australian synchrotron shines new light in the Southern Hemisphere'
The Australian Synchrotron under construction in Melbourne is due to begin operation in April 2007.
Read article 'Prague meeting focuses on colliders and cosmic rays'
The C2CR meeting in Prague targeted the interface between cosmic-ray physics and the current and future results from accelerators and colliders.
Read article 'Accelerator Physics 2nd edition'
Intended for use as a graduate or senior undergraduate text in accelerator physics and science, this book can also be used as preparatory material for graduate accelerator-physics students.
