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.
Read article 'Last major component installed at CNGS'
The magnetic system that focuses the beam of particles arising from the graphite target of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project (CNGS) has been installed in its final position in the tunnel.
Read article 'Meeting reviews progress towards the new BEPC'
A recent collaboration gathered to hear the latest news on the upgrades to the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider and to the Beijing Spectrometer.
Read article 'ICALEPCS 2005: Geneva'
In October 2005, control-systems experts from experimental facilities around the world met in Geneva for the EUROPHYSICS conference ICALEPCS 2005. Axel Daneels reports.
Read article 'LHC’s installation makes progress'
CERN's director-general, Robert Aymar praised the immense progress made towards the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project when he addressed the 135th session of the CERN Council on 16 December 2005.
Read article 'Belle achieves new luminosity record'
By mid-afternoon on 22 November, the Belle experiment at KEK had accumulated an integrated luminosity of 500 fb-1 of electron-positron collision data.
Read article 'Superconducting RF technology forum unites research and industry'
Representatives from European research and industry have established the European Industry Forum for Accelerators with Superconducting RF Technology, EIFast.
