Read article 'No stopping the accelerator'
The recent European Particle Accelerator Conference in Vienna underlined how far and wide particle accelerators have infiltrated into science and technology. Colin Johnson reports.
Read article 'RHIC begins smashing nuclei'
On Monday 12 June a new high-energy machine made its stage debut as operators in the main control room of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) finally declared victory over their stu...
Read article 'Towards the ultimate X-ray source:the X-ray laser'
With their ultrashort wavelengths, X-rays are excellent probes of finestructure. An international team at the DESY laboratory has developed a technique for attaining wavelengths of less than 100 n...
Read article 'Accelerators to span the globe'
International collaboration has always played a major role in particle physics experiments. Could this also be applied to the accelerators themselves? Here, Albrecht Wagner,chairman of the directora...
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 '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 '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...
