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.
Read article 'DESY turns storage ring into light source'
The new light source, PETRA III, will run at 6 GeV with a current of more than 100 mA.
Read article 'Polarized photocathodes make the grade'
Future linear colliders will require high levels of performance from their electron sources. A group at SLAC has recently tested a structure that substantially exceeds current collider polarized elect...
Read article 'Daresbury’s proposed 4G light source moves forward'
Following extensive peer review, the fourth-generation light source proposed for the Daresbury laboratory, UK, has been given the green light to proceed to the next stage of planning.
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.
