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.
Read article '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...
Read article 'Experts share news of radiofrequency progress'
Radiofrequency (RF) electric fields provide the motive power for high-energy accelerators.
Read article '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...
Read article 'Superconducting Materials for High Energy Colliders'
Lucio Rossi reviews in 2001 Superconducting Materials for High Energy Colliders.
Read article 'Getting up to speed in the year AD 2'
After coming into operation last year, CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) has got up to speed for physics this year.
Read article 'New double-ring design for Chinese machine will be more competitive'
A second ring is now being planned for the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP).
Read article 'RHIC collider running at full collision energy'
The 4 km circumference Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven Laboratory is now running at its full design nucleon collision energy of 200 GeV and physics expectations are high.
Read article 'LHC insertions: the key to CERN’s new accelerator'
In October 2001, production of the specialised magnets that perform specific tasks, such as final focus, and injection and extraction of beams, was in full swing.
Read article 'Japan’s KEKB offers unprecedented luminosity'
The KEKB Japanese B-factory collider is delivering unprecedented luminosity (a measure of the machine's electron-positron collision rate) to the international collaboration running the Belle experimen...
