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.
Read article 'Berkeley plans CIRCE to fill the terahertz gap'
A machine has been proposed at Berkeley that would provide radiation at terahertz frequencies, a valuable source for research.
Read article 'LHC cryogenic unit keeps its cool'
The cryogenic system for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN reached a major milestone on 7 April by achieving operation of the unit at Point 8 at its nominal temperature of 1.8 K.
Read article 'Energy-recovering linacs begin maturing'
The ERL2005 Workshop at Jefferson Lab in March - the first of its kind - reviewed an innovative use of electron linacs in light sources and, potentially, particle colliders.
Read article 'HERA and LHC workshops help prepare for the future'
A series of workshops has given scientists the opportunity to discover how the studies currently being carried out at HERA will influence future physics at the LHC.
Read article 'Records fall at Cornell'
Experiments at Cornell are breaking records for accelerating gradients and Q values in superconducting radio-frequency cavities, reports Hasan Padamsee.
Read article 'MICE project gets the green light'
On 21 March, the UK's science and innovation minister announced the approval and funding of the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment, MICE, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).
Read article 'Belle discovers yet more new particles'
The vast amounts of accumulated data have helped another important aspect of Belle's physics programme: the discovery of new particle states in the charm sector.
Read article 'VENUS reveals the future of heavy-ion sources'
VENUS, the latest superconducting ECR ion source, is blazing the trail for the next generation of heavy-ion accelerators, as Daniela Leitner of LBNL explains.
Read article 'First dipole descends to LHC'
On 7 March the first of the superconducting dipole magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), under construction at CERN, was lowered into the accelerator tunnel.
