Read article 'Two teams take big steps forward in plasma acceleration'
The high electric-field gradients that can be set up in plasma have offered the promise of compact particle accelerators since the late 1970s.
Read article 'Nanotube cathode promises intense electron beam'
It looks like a small black button, but in tests at Fermilab’s High-Brightness Electron Source Lab it has produced beam currents greater than those generated with a large laser system.
Read article 'CERN and ITER cooperate'
The LHC and ITER project share many technologies, providing a natural basis for collaboration.
Read article 'A lifetime in biophysics'
Shake hands with Eleanor Blakely and you are only one handshake away from John Lawrence – a pioneer of nuclear medicine and brother of Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of the...
Read article 'OECD report praises innovation at CERN'
In early June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published their Global Science Forum (GSF) report, “The Impacts of Large Research Infrastructures on Economic Inn...
Read article 'ESS: neutron beams at the high-intensity frontier'
A look at what will be the world’s most powerful neutron source.
Read article 'A network for life'
The Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER) was established in 2008 to train young biologists, engineers, radio-oncologists and physicists in the various aspects of hadron...
Read article 'New results mark progress towards polarized ion beams in laser-induced acceleration'
The field of laser-induced relativistic plasmas and, in particular, laser-driven particle acceleration, has undergone impressive progress in recent years.
Read article 'ICTR-PHE: uniting physics, medicine and biology'
Résumé ICTR-PHE : unir la physique, la médecine et la biologie La conférence ICTR-PHE 2014 a réuni à Genève quelque 400 participants du monde entier venus discu...
Read article 'Advanced radiation detectors in industry'
The European Physical Society’s Technology and Innovation Group (EPS-TIG) was set up in 2011 to work at the boundary between basic and applied sciences, with annual workshops organized in col...
