Read article 'LHC insertions: the key to CERN’s new accelerator'
In October 2001, production of the specialised magnets that perform specific tasks, such as final focus, and injection and extraction of beams, was in full swing.
Read article 'Magnets become more compact'
A new development in Japan that enables powerful magnetic fields to be obtained without using expensive electromagnets could open the door to smaller, special-purpose particle accelerator installation...
Read article 'Last LHC magnets from Siberia reach CERN'
The delivery of Russian magnets to equip transfer lines to feed CERN's new LHC collider is now complete.
Read article 'Japan’s KEKB offers unprecedented luminosity'
The KEKB Japanese B-factory collider is delivering unprecedented luminosity (a measure of the machine's electron-positron collision rate) to the international collaboration running the Belle experimen...
Read article 'Proposed SPL machine could help provide neutrino beams'
The imaginations of physicists all over the world have been fired by the quest for new schemes for making intense beams of neutrinos.
Read article 'Linear collider study is extended for two years'
A strong physics case has been made for building and electron-positron linear collider with an energy range from 90 GeV up to about 1 TeV.
Read article 'Fermilab launches Run II of Tevatron'
After detecting hints of the long-awaited Higgs particle, CERN's LEP electron-positron collider closed at the end of 2000 and is now being dismantled. The search for the Higgs - the missing link in ...
Read article 'Isotope source hits target'
The ISAC on-line isotope source at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory recently achieved its full design energy. Paul Schmor and Jean-Michel Poutissou describe the experiments scheduled for the source.
Read article 'Super Proton Synchrotron marks its 25th birthday'
A quarter of a century ago, CERN's gleaming new Super Proton Synchrotron supplied its first proton beams. Although no longer the spearhead of CERN's research programme, the machine has become a vital ...
Read article 'High-energy accelerators look to R&D'
The rhythm of the International High Energy Accelerator Conference (HEACC), held once every three years, is well matched to the gradual evolution of the accelerator scene.
