Applications Archives – CERN Courier

The collider dividend

The High-Luminosity LHC is expected to return to society nearly twice its cost, before a single discovery is counted.

A new seed for marine clouds

CLOUD has identified a second vapour that drives cloud formation in cold marine air.

The age of the blockbuster-scale radiopharmaceutical

Radiopharmaceuticals based on novel radionuclides have, for the first time, reached blockbuster proportions.

Superconductors for the energy frontier

Ezio Todesco charts the future of high-field dipole magnets – a technology set to advance the boundaries of high-energy physics and the societal applications of superconductivity.

ICABU fishes for accelerator innovations in Pohang

The 27th International Conference on Accelerators and Beam Utilizations attracted 300 experts to South Korea.

Space radiobiology

Space Radiobiology explores a meeting point between two fields that have long followed separate paths.

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...