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.
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.
