Read article 'Superbends expand the scope of Berkeley’s ALS'
The first-ever retrofit of superconducting bend magnets into the storage ring of an operating synchrotron radiation source extended the spectrum of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced L...
Read article 'Dipole magnets transfer to industry'
The LHC will use some 1248 superconducting dipole magnets to keep its proton beams on course.
Read article 'CERN hosts major magnet conference'
Represented in the MT-17 delegate list were 27 countries, giving an indication of the growing importance of magnet technology. An industrial exhibition at the conference was attended by 30 companies. ...
Read article 'Climbing out of the nuclear valley'
With nuclear physics largely confined to a narrow band of stable isotopes, a new US machine aims to provide a wider nuclear perspective.
Read article 'Forward Physics and Luminosity Determination at the LHC'
These are the proceedings of a workshop held in Helsinki, in 2000, which covered both theoretical and experimental aspects of the topic.
Read article 'An Introduction to Particle Accelerators'
Tom Taylor reviews in 2002 An Introduction to Particle Accelerators.
Read article '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.
Read article '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...
Read article 'Channelling produces new sources of positrons'
For future electron-positron linear colliders, high-intensity electron and positron beams are needed.
Read article '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.
