Read article 'CERN workshop studies electron clouds'
Clouds of electrons triggered by synchrotron radiation or by seed electrons created by ionization of residual gas are likely to set performance limits on high-intensity particle storage rings like the...
Read article 'Cosmic-ray observations need accelerator data'
Some 50 people attended the NEEDS workshop in Karlsruhe in April to discuss how accelerator experiments can help in understanding cosmic-ray data. The meeting brought together experimentalists and the...
Read article 'Smooth surfaces give boost to TESLA superconducting cavity'
Accelerating cavities for the proposed TESLA superconducting electron-positron collider routinely achieve the 25 MV/m accelerating gradient that is required to achieve a collision energy of 500 GeV in...
Read article 'US facility explores wakefield acceleration'
A group of scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US is pursuing the novel technique of electron beam-driven wakefield acceleration. This uses the strong electromagnetic fields that foll...
Read article 'Systems engineers find their way to San Jose'
Control systems engineering in particle physics laboratories has many applications, as the ICALEPCS 2001 conference showed. Axel Daneels and Rusty Humphrey report.
Read article 'Accelerator science needs more brain power'
Although the application of accelerators to science grew in the early 20th century, Maury Tigner says that further technical advances depend on greater intellectual input.
Read article 'Spanish synchrotron gets the green light'
The Spanish government gave the green light in March to a project to build a synchrotron light source near Barcelona.
Read article 'Probing the boundary of nuclear-particle physics'
Founded in the 1980s as the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), the US national laboratory on Chesapeake Bay adopted the name of Thomas Jefferson in 1996. America's third president ...
Read article 'LEP collider comes to the end of the tunnel'
A 14 month programme to dismantle CERN's Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP) reached its conclusion in February, when the last LEP half-dipole was removed from the collider tunnel.
Read article 'Polarized protons collide in RHIC'
The Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) collided its first polarized protons last November.
