Accelerators Archives – Page 84 of 90

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

B race hots up

PEP-II achieved this figure late last year and KEKB reached it in February.

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...

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.