Read article 'Countering the beam-beam effect'
Countering the beam-beam effect
A theme that is common to many new particle colliders is the determined push to extend the physics reach by boosting the collision rate (luminosity).
Read article 'Countering the beam-beam effect'
Read article 'Meetings highlight boom in accelerator developments'
Meetings highlight boom in accelerator developments
New projects and important upgrades are under way in many laboratories, while technological progress and continual ingenuity augur well for the future.
Read article 'Snapshot of high-energy accelerator progress'
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'
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'
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'
Ready for the Bs
In February, physicists at SLAC, Stanford, successfully finished commissioning the PEP-II B-factory.
Read article 'Leader of the PAC'
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'
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'
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'
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...
