Read article 'Induction acceleration looks to the future'
It was a milestone event in the history of induction accelerators when more than 55 experts assembled at KEK in October 2002 for an international workshop on Recent Progress in Induction Accelerators ...
Read article '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 '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'
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'
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'
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'
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.
