Accelerators Archives – Page 66 of 91

HERA hits record annual luminosity

In its 2005 run, DESY's HERA collider achieved the largest integrated luminosity it has ever produced in one year.

CERN’s low-energy frontier

The recent NuPAC meeting at CERN provided an overview of the laboratory's present and future activities in nuclear astrophysics, nuclear-structure physics and related areas.

The future looks bright for particle channelling

Techniques that make use of the ordered structure of a crystal lattice to manipulate particle beams are finding an increasing number of applications.

On 12 October the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan, became the fourth synchrotron facility in the world to operate fully in top-up mode, joining the Swiss Light Source (S...

SNS reaches major milestone on journey to completion next June

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) has met a crucial milestone on its way to completion in June 2006 - operation of th...

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 (...

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...

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 ...

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.