Read article 'Spanish synchrotron gets the green light'
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 'Spanish synchrotron gets the green light'
Read article 'Probing the boundary of nuclear-particle physics'
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'
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'
Polarized protons collide in RHIC
The Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) collided its first polarized protons last November.
Read article 'Swiss Light Source set to be a world-class facility'
Swiss Light Source set to be a world-class facility
October 2001 saw the inauguration of the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute. As Peter-Raymond Kettle reports, the source gives Switzerland a world-class synchrotron radiation facility.
Read article 'Superbends expand the scope of Berkeley’s ALS'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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.
