Read article 'MIT-Bates celebrates 25 years'
In 1967, helped by Massachusetts congressman William H Bates, who was then on the US Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, MIT acquired a site for a new electron accelerator, which is still going strong. ...
Read article 'New prospects for the Dubna Nuclotron'
A new beam-extraction system considerably extends the capabilities of the unique Nuclotron accelerator at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna near Moscow.
Read article 'ELFE: an electron machine for Europe'
As experiments at CERN using high-energy nuclear beams have shown, about one ten-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, its quarks and gluons crystallized into protons and neutrons, changing for...
Read article 'LEP achieves record energy levels'
CERN's flagship accelerator, the 27 km Large Electron Positron collider (LEP), began its final year in fine style in April colliding beams at a record 104 GeV per beam, just three weeks after start-u...
Read article 'Canadian isotope source is to be upgraded'
The new Isotope Separator and Accelerator is now operational at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory, producing intense beams of short-lived, exotic nuclei.
Read article 'Straight section on full current'
The first of 420 short straight sections for CERN's LHC collider to be put on test at CERN has been successfully ramped to full current.
Read article 'Rutherford Appleton gains ‘Diamond’ synchrotron source'
The UK's Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury, near Manchester, is to be replaced by a new machine at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford that should be operational in 2006.
Read article 'Harping on about hadrons'
The Hadron Production Experiment at the CERN PS proton synchrotron is a collaboration of institutes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK as well as CERN and the JI...
Read article 'Swedish accelerators take a look at the past'
In the years immediately after the Second World War, several countries that were pushing to develop more powerful particle accelerators created an exclusive club. A recent symposium in Uppsala look...
Read article 'Scintillations in Seattle'
Making invisible physics visible has always called for ingenuity. The techniques can also lead to important applications in other areas. Two meetings in Seattle offered an update on developments. P...
