Read article 'CEBAF reaches 150% of its design energy'
Jefferson Laboratory's CEBAF accelerator, which was originally designed to provide 4 GeV continuous-wave electron beams, has demonstrated 6 GeV continuous-wave operation.
Read article 'KEK laboratory demonstrates fixed-field synchrotron'
The Japanese KEK laboratory has for the first time demonstrated an alternative method of accelerating protons to high energy - the fixed-field, alternating gradient (FFAG) synchrotron.
Read article 'Proton collaboration is under way in Japan'
In Japan the KEK high-energy physics laboratory and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute are working together to finalize preparations for a major new high-intensity proton source, with applic...
Read article 'Energen has a winning plan'
Energen of Billerica, Massachusetts, has been selected as winner of the WPI Venture Forum's 7th Annual Business Plan Contest.
Read article 'Extreme cryogenics keeps LHC cool'
When it comes into operation in 2005, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which will use thousands of superconducting magnets operating at superfluid helium temperatures, will also be the largest cryogeni...
Read article 'First test beams are delivered for the LHC'
The experiments being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) received their first beams in May and preliminary results are expected soon.
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...
