Read article 'Snapshot of high-energy accelerator progress'
A major event in the international accelerator calendar is the triennial International Conference on High Energy Accelerators. The seventeeth such event, which was held recently in Dubna, Russia, p...
Read article 'Ending the century on a century'
During the current shutdown, CERN's LEP electronpositron collider is undergoing a major overhaul and is also being fitted with even more superconducting radiofrequency accelerating cavities, in or...
Read article 'Yerevan synchrotron is back in action'
fter seven years of inactivity owing to difficult economic conditions, the electron synchrotron in Yerevan, Armenia, is in operational again.
Read article 'Ready for the Bs'
In February, physicists at SLAC, Stanford, successfully finished commissioning the PEP-II B-factory.
Read article 'Leader of the PAC'
his years's Particle Accelerator Conference in New York City on 29 March - 2 April included news from several major new machines that are beginning to flex their muscles.
Read article 'HERA strikes it RICHER'
The article "HERA strikes it RICH" in the November 1998 issue described the first rings seen in the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) being commissioned for the HERA-B experiment at the HERA electronpro...
Read article 'Superconducting dipole magnet consortium'
Two of the initial firms supplying superconducting dipole magnets for CERN's LHC proton collider Noell of Würzburg, Germany, and Ansaldo of Genoa, Italy have joined forces.
Read article 'Model magnet for CERN’s LHC reaches 250 T/m in Japan'
Special superconducting quadrupole magnets for squeezing the beams at CERN's LHC collider have been successfully developed at the Japanese KEK laboratory as part of the LHC co-operation programme betw...
Read article 'Linear collider physics: the next challenge'
While CERN's LHC proton collider is the world's major particle physics project, other avenues of research could yield complementary studies. Here, David Miller looks at the possibilities for a linea...
Read article 'ISAC produces first ion beam at TRIUMF'
On 30 November 1998 the new ISAC facility at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory in Vancouver produced its first ion beam with short-lived exotic isotopes.
