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.
Read article 'Canada completes its major contribution to the LHC project'
The largest piece of Canada's $41.5 million (€32.5 million) contribution to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completed in 2003 with the delivery of the last of 52 twin-aperture quadrupole magnets...
Read article 'PEP II gets ready for a data bonanza'
Three months into run 4 and the PEP II accelerator, the electron-positron collider at SLAC, is performing beautifully.
Read article 'The quest for higher gradients'
A workshop at Argonne on high-gradient RF cavities attracted 90 participants, with contributions from CERN, KEK, SLAC, Argonne and Fermilab. Jim Norem reports.
Read article 'CERN’s heart beats as strong as ever'
Günther Plass looks back to the very beginnings of the Proton Synchrotron in the 1950s and its subsequent career as the centrepiece of CERN's accelerator complex.
Read article 'The challenge of the LHC'
The Large Hadron Collider project has had to overcome challenges at every stage. Lyn Evans focuses on the three phases of approval, construction and operation.
Read article 'LHC dipole production begins to take off'
By early December 2003 CERN had taken delivery of 154 superconducting dipole magnets - enough for the first octant of the LHC. This indicates that industrial production is now both on course and in fu...
Read article 'LHC interconnections: searching for reliability'
The reliability of the LHC will depend not only on the superconducting magnets but also on the interconnections between magnetic sections, as Blazej Skoczen explains.
Read article 'Hurricane Isabel gives accelerators a severe test'
Swapan Chattopadhyay reports on the recovery of Jefferson Lab's superconducting linear accelerators in the wake of Hurricane Isabel last September.
