Read article 'LHC magnets pass two milestones'
LHC magnets pass two milestones
The new year at CERN has seen good news for two types of magnet that will be essential to focusing beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read article 'LHC magnets pass two milestones'
Read article 'LCLS gets funding as TESLA wins support'
LCLS gets funding as TESLA wins support
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), which passed the US Department of Energy's "Critical Decision 1" process in October 2002, has been allo...
Read article 'Novel CLIC accelerating structure achieves 195 MV/m'
Novel CLIC accelerating structure achieves 195 MV/m
The nominal parameters for the compact linear collider (CLIC) foresee acceleration of the electron and positron bunches to an energy of 1.5 TeV by 30 GHz normal-conducting accelerating structures oper...
Read article 'Records tumble at KEKB and Belle'
Records tumble at KEKB and Belle
Like all experimental groups around the world, the Belle collaboration at Japan's KEK laboratory is always pushing for higher luminosity, and for the past couple of years the KEKB accelerator team has...
Read article 'JLab generates high-power terahertz light'
JLab generates high-power terahertz light
At the Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) in Virginia, US, a multilaboratory team using beams of relativistic electrons has generated broadband terahertz radiation at nearly 20 W average power, several order...
Read article 'DESY and SLAC agree to collaborate on X-ray free-electron laser development'
DESY and SLAC agree to collaborate on X-ray free-electron laser development
The directors of the two laboratories signed a memorandum of understanding describing the exchange of personnel, equipment, research results and data.
Read article 'LANL develops bespoke cavities for low-energy applications'
LANL develops bespoke cavities for low-energy applications
Superconducting (SC) RF cavities are becoming common in accelerators for high-energy and nuclear physics, and the technologies needed to obtain high fields and high-quality factors in elliptical cavit...
Read article 'Looking forward to physics at Tevatron Run II'
Looking forward to physics at Tevatron Run II
It's taken a while, but the world's highest-energy accelerator is back. Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider is once again exploring the high-energy frontier, with newly upgraded detectors a...
Read article 'RHIC limbers up for a new heavy-ion run'
RHIC limbers up for a new heavy-ion run
Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) began its cool-down on 1 November ready for the first injection of beam in December.
Read article 'BES accumulates 14 million y(2S) events'
BES accumulates 14 million y(2S) events
This year, the Beijing Spectrometer (BES) experiment running at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) completed a run at the energy of the y(2S) resonance.
