Read article 'The sun sets on SATURNE'
The sun sets on SATURNE
After a 40-year career, first as a weak focusing machine and then rebuilt with strong focusing, the French SATURNE synchrotron has exited the physics stage.
Read article 'The sun sets on SATURNE'
Read article 'SLAC B-Factory comes up to speed'
SLAC B-Factory comes up to speed
Shortly after the dedication of the PEP-II B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre on 26 October, a team led by John Seeman resumed the task of commissioning the new electronpositron co...
Read article 'A cold start for LHC'
A cold start for LHC
Spearheading the construction effort for CERN's LHC collider is the groundwork for the 1232 superconducting dipole magnets, to be cooled by superfluid helium at 1.9K. Material procurement and tooling...
Read article 'Exploring new trends in electron cooling'
Exploring new trends in electron cooling
The invention and development of electron cooling by Gersh Budker's team in Novosibirsk in the late 1960s and early 1970s set physics on a new route to discovery. Electron cooling has become crucial f...
Read article 'Molecular sticky tape'
Molecular sticky tape
The 1998 EPS-IGA prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field was awarded to CERN’s Cris Benvenuti for “major breakthroughs in achieving ultra-high vacua in storage rings”.
Read article 'The AUSTRON: Austria’s invitation to Europe'
The AUSTRON: Austria’s invitation to Europe
International partners are being sought for the AUSTRON, a proposal for a pulsed high-flux neutron spallation source which could provide an international research centre in central Europe. Austria ha...
Read article 'SLAC B-Factory makes progress'
SLAC B-Factory makes progress
After achieving its first electronpositron collisions this summer, the PEP-II B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center was formally dedicated on 23 October.
Read article 'Brookhaven completes magnet production'
Brookhaven completes magnet production
A recent celebration in the assembly area at Brookhaven's RHIC Magnet Facility marked the completion of magnet production for the laboratory's RHIC Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Read article 'Final magnet installed at Fermilab'
Final magnet installed at Fermilab
On 24 September, US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson put the finishing touches to the installation of the 366th and final 20-ton dipole magnet to steer the beams in Fermilab's new 150 GeV, 2.25 mile...
Read article 'Long hot summer'
Long hot summer
Smooth running at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider, now at 189 GeV collision energy (94.5 GeV per beam), is reflected in a fast climbing, integrated luminosity curve.
