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...
Read article 'BEARS deliver radioactive species'
BEARS is led by Joseph Cerny, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California and LBNL Nuclear Science Division, with other researchers from the Nuclear Science Division, the Life Sciences Divi...
Read article 'New meson physics pushes on in 2000'
On 9-10 December a symposium at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, will mark the 20th anniversary of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, the CLEO particle detector and the Cornell High-Energy Synchr...
Read article '40 years of CERN’s Proton Synchrotron'
CERN's Proton Synchrotron achieved its first high-energy beams 40 years ago. The pioneers at CERN had dared to follow a new, untested route in a bid to become the world's highest energy machine. Now, ...
Read article 'An even greater step for LEP'
On 24 September 1999 the French authorities gave their formal permission for CERN's LEP electronpositron collider to run at beam energies of up to 105 GeV.
Read article 'ECRIS feeds transuranic nuclei experiments'
These exotica nuclei are produced by bombarding a suitable nuclear target with a high-energy beam of specially prepared nuclei and studying the resulting decay chains in a suitable detector.
