Read article 'B-factory achieves record luminosity'
On 19 February the Belle experiment running at Japan's KEKB accelerator, the KEK B-factory, accumulated a record integrated luminosity in a single day.
Read article 'Rewriting the rules on proton acceleration'
Ken Takayama describes recent tests at KEK that have demonstrated induction acceleration in a proton synchrotron.
Read article 'LHC upgrade takes shape with CARE and attention'
Even before the Large Hadron Collider has accelerated its first beams, various groups have begun to plan an upgrade scheduled for around the middle of the next decade.
Read article 'RHIC starts colliding copper with copper'
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US has started colliding beams of copper ions.
Read article 'U70 tests stochastic extraction scheme'
Tests for an advanced slow stochastic extraction (SSE) scheme have been performed successfully at the U70, the 70 GeV proton synchrotron at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, in ...
Read article 'HERA hits new heights'
Ferdinand Willeke reports on the challenges faced by the HERA crew to get the accelerator back into full swing after a major luminosity upgrade in 2001.
Read article 'Protons on the doorstep of the LHC'
The first of the two new beam transfer lines to the LHC was successfully commissioned in autumn 2004. At the first attempt a low-intensity proton beam passed down the line to a few metres before the L...
Read article 'LHC must keep to 2007 start-up'
At the 131st session of Council on 17 December, CERN's director-general Robert Aymar confirmed that the organization's top priority is to maintain the goal of starting up the Large Hadron Collider (LH...
Read article 'Spin-flipping crosses the Atlantic'
After the venerable Cooler Ring at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) passed on to accelerator heaven in autumn 2002, the polarized beam team, led by Alan Krisch, crossed the Atlantic to...
Read article 'ISOLDE goes from strength to strength'
In 1964 CERN took the initiative to develop the means for studying short-lived nuclei. Forty years on, ISOLDE continues to be a world-leading facility for research with radioactive beams.
