Read article 'Isotope source hits target'
The ISAC on-line isotope source at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory recently achieved its full design energy. Paul Schmor and Jean-Michel Poutissou describe the experiments scheduled for the source.
Read article 'Super Proton Synchrotron marks its 25th birthday'
A quarter of a century ago, CERN's gleaming new Super Proton Synchrotron supplied its first proton beams. Although no longer the spearhead of CERN's research programme, the machine has become a vital ...
Read article 'High-energy accelerators look to R&D'
The rhythm of the International High Energy Accelerator Conference (HEACC), held once every three years, is well matched to the gradual evolution of the accelerator scene.
Read article 'LHC lattice magnets enter production'
With the start-up of CERN's Large Hadron Collider just five years away, the laboratory's new flagship accelerator is moving firmly from prototyping to production. R&D is coming to an end and contrac...
Read article 'TESLA project goes public'
The DESY laboratory in Hamburg recently published plans for a superconducting linear electron-positron collider: TESLA. This article amplifies these ambitious plans and outlines the objectives of th...
Read article 'Nuclear collisions reach the central plateau'
The world's first heavy-ion colliding beam machine, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven, came on line late last year. At a recent conference, RHIC experiments revealed the initi...
Read article 'HERA upgrade increases luminosity'
Major changes are under way at Hamburg's DESY laboratory.
Read article 'Run II begins at the Tevatron'
Back in operation for particle physics for the first time since 1996, Fermilab's superconducting Tevatron proton antiproton collider is set to write a major new chapter of science history.
Read article 'Making Tevatron magnets'
A new magnetic system for Fermilab's Tevatron collider has been designed and built in a collaboration between Fermilab and the Institute for High-Energy Physics in Protvino, near Moscow.
Read article 'Moscow accelerator creates first beam'
The TeraWatt Accumulator (TWAC) project at Moscow's Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) has successfully passed its proof-of-principle test.
