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...
Read article 'B race hots up'
PEP-II achieved this figure late last year and KEKB reached it in February.
Read article 'Neutrons in the material world'
Some 15 years ago, an ambitious plan to create a neutron source out of an aging particle accelerator came to fruition. Today, accelerator, detector and data acquisition developments continue to play...
Read article 'Superconducting radiofrequency'
Accelerators are increasingly turning to superconducting technology to transfer power to the particle beams. The biennial workshop is a shop window for progress.
Read article 'Two electron guns fire at Jefferson'
Spin-oriented (polarized) electron beams are high on the agenda at the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, Virginia.
Read article 'Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering'
Maury Tigner reviews in 1999 Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering.
Read article 'Siberian searchlight on rare decay'
The VEPP-2M electronpositron collider, which has been running at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk since 1974, amassed a big amount of phi mesons before the start of the new Itali...
