Applications Archives – CERN Courier

Biology at the Bragg peak

Angelica Facoetti explains five facts accelerator physicists need to know about radiobiology to work at the cutting edge of particle therapy.

The future of particle therapy

PTCOG president Marco Durante describes an exciting future for the technology and shares his vision for closer international cooperation between medicine, academia and industry.

The physicist who fought war and cancer

Subatomic physics has shaped both the conduct of war and the treatment of cancer. Joseph Rotblat, who left the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later advanced radiotherapy, embodies this dual le...

Double plasma progress at DESY

New developments tackle two of the biggest challenges in plasma-wave acceleration: beam quality and bunch rate.

Powering into the future

Nuria Catalan Lasheras and Igor Syratchev explain why klystrons are strategically important to the future of the field – and how CERN plans to boost their efficiency above 90%.

CERN and ESA: a decade of innovation

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further fundamental exploration and innovation in space technologies.