Accelerators Archives – Page 75 of 88

U10 proton synchrotron reaches 40

Moscow's Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the commissioning of its U10 proton synchrotron.

Going into the cold: LHC systems reach an important milestone

The technical systems for CERN's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reached an important milestone earlier this year with the successful commissioning of String 2 - a chain of prototype LHC magn...

Channelling produces new sources of positrons

For future electron-positron linear colliders, high-intensity electron and positron beams are needed.

International team breaks through to maximum light amplification

In a major boost for future plans, an international team based at DESY has achieved maximum light amplification from a free-electron laser (FEL) for ultraviolet radiation.

Table-top device makes crystalline beams

A model set up at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University has for the first time achieved a high level of “crystallization” of particle beams in a ring. The particles orbiting in conv...

Experts share news of radiofrequency progress

Radiofrequency (RF) electric fields provide the motive power for high-energy accelerators.

Cornell makes plans to alter its course

Cornell University in New York managed for a long time to keep pace with major national laboratories. Experiments at Cornell provided many important contributions to the physics of B-mesons - parti...