Read article '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'
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'
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'
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'
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.
Read article 'Accelerator conference showcases diversity'
This year's European Particle Accelerator Conference, held in Paris, highlighted the growing diversity of particle accelerator technology. Francesco Ruggiero and Leonid Rivkin report.
Read article 'LBNL delivers front end of SNS'
After four years of construction, the linear accelerator injector that will form the front end of the US SNS has been commissioned at LBNL. Fulfilling all its major design requirements and performing ...
Read article 'LHC test-bed progresses to second phase'
A complete cell of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began tests at the laboratory in June.
Read article 'University hosts premier rare-isotope facility'
Since it was founded in the 1980s, Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory has evolved to become the US's premier rare-isotope facility. Georg Bollen reports on its v...
Read article 'Accelerators for nano- and biosciences'
Practical, affordable yet unique and exciting new accelerator facilities could advance vital research capabilities for nano- and bioscience, says Swapan Chattopadhyay.
