Read article 'Magnets become more compact'
A new development in Japan that enables powerful magnetic fields to be obtained without using expensive electromagnets could open the door to smaller, special-purpose particle accelerator installation...
Read article 'Last LHC magnets from Siberia reach CERN'
The delivery of Russian magnets to equip transfer lines to feed CERN's new LHC collider is now complete.
Read article 'Proposed SPL machine could help provide neutrino beams'
The imaginations of physicists all over the world have been fired by the quest for new schemes for making intense beams of neutrinos.
Read article 'Linear collider study is extended for two years'
A strong physics case has been made for building and electron-positron linear collider with an energy range from 90 GeV up to about 1 TeV.
Read article 'Fermilab launches Run II of Tevatron'
After detecting hints of the long-awaited Higgs particle, CERN's LEP electron-positron collider closed at the end of 2000 and is now being dismantled. The search for the Higgs - the missing link in ...
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...
