Read article 'BEPC stops running and begins major upgrade programme'
With the blow of a whistle at 8 a.m. on 30 April, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) finished running and the installation of its major upgrade, BEPCII, began.
Read article 'Russian neutron complex looks to future research programme'
The future possibilities for research at the neutron complex of the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was the topic of a workshop that took place in Moscow ...
Read article 'Final beam for Orsay’s accelerator'
The linear accelerator that gave "LAL" at Orsay its name has delivered its last beam, but the laboratory's involvement with electron linacs remains as strong as ever.
Read article 'CANDLE lights up research in Armenia'
As Armenian scientists continue their efforts to promote the creation of the CANDLE facility, a third-generation light source, Vasili Tsakanov explains the importance of the project both to the region...
Read article 'Electrons give BaBar a ‘trickle treat’'
The PEP-II accelerator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) reached a new milestone on 11 March by phasing in “trickle injection”, a mode of operation that increases the produc...
Read article 'CERN’s giant fridge'
The first stage of the refrigeration system for the Large Hadron Collider is now installed and ready for the initial cooling tests in 2005, as Laurent Tavian describes.
Read article 'Bringing the heavens down to Earth'
Recent developments and discoveries in astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology are creating an increasing synergy between astroparticle physics and particle physics at accelerators, as Nikolaos M...
Read article 'SPEAR ring comes to life again as a dazzling new synchrotron light source…'
The latest reincarnation of the famous SPEAR storage ring - SPEAR3 - was formally opened at a dedication ceremony at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) on 29 January.
Read article '…and STELLA lights way to a better electron accelerator'
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a compact linear accelerator that uses laser light to accelerate electrons with better efficiency and energy characteristics than befor...
Read article 'Superconducting cavities exceed 35 MV/m'
This is the performance required for an upgrade of TESLA to 800 GeV.
