Read article 'LEIR gets ions on course for the LHC'
On 10 October, at the very first attempt, a beam travelled round the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) at CERN. LEIR is a central part of the injector chain to supply lead ions to the Large Hadron Collider (...
Read article 'ILC comes to Snowmass'
In August nearly 700 scientists and engineers from North America, Asia and Europe got together at Snowmass in the US to advance the design of the International Linear Collider and its detectors, and t...
Read article 'How CERN keeps its cool'
Research at CERN centres on very high particle energies, but it also involves the application of very low temperature techniques. Giorgio Passardi and Laurent Tavian take a look at the evolution of ...
Read article 'REX-ISOLDE accelerates the first isomeric beams'
CERN's REX-ISOLDE facility has opened up a new avenue for nuclear investigations by accelerating isomeric beams for the first time, as Georgi Georgiev explains.
Read article 'High pT Physics at Hadron Colliders'
Allan Clark reviews in 2005 High pT Physics at Hadron Colliders.
Read article 'LHC project passes several milestones'
Progress on the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has passed several important milestones in recent weeks.
Read article 'H-jet measures beam polarization at RHIC'
The RHIC accelerator collides 100 GeV polarized protons head-on to study the contribution of gluons to the proton spin. But how is the degree of polarization of the beam known? Willy Haeberli explain...
Read article 'Symposium previews the future of hadron colliders'
The HCP2005 Symposium, held in the Swiss Alps, discussed the latest results from the Tevatron and the prospect that the LHC will open new scientific frontiers.
Read article 'Fermilab’s Recycler beams take electron cooling to new heights'
After 10 years of preparation, a team at Fermilab has achieved electron cooling at high energy.
Read article 'Conference brings Einstein to Tennessee'
This year's major accelerator conference covered impressive progress in the field, and featured events celebrating the World Year of Physics. Norbert Holtkamp reports.
