Read article 'Energy options and the role of nuclear fusion'
Chris Llewellyn Smith is no stranger to CERN. He served five years as director-general, from 1994 to 1998. During his mandate, LEP was successfully upgraded and the LHC project was approved. On his ...
Read article 'Cryogenic jets defy Rayleigh’s theory'
Many technical and scientific applications, such as experiments with internal targets at particle accelerators, require the transport into an interaction zone of substances that are gaseous at room te...
Read article 'Reflections offer new way to bend particles'
The reflection of particle's trajectory is currently used by accelerators and will be important for the future generation of accelerators.
Read article 'Terascale Alliance takes off in Germany'
The next big advances in particle physics are expected to happen at the "terascale". The tremendous complexity and size of experiments at the LHC and the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) c...
Read article 'Electronics for LHC-era experiments and beyond'
TWEPP ’07 reviewed lessons learnt and looked to future projects.
Read article 'FLASH makes laser pulses at design energy'
On the evening of 4 October, the team in the control room at FLASH, the soft X-ray, free-electron laser facility at DESY, observed lasing at a wavelength of 7 nm for the first time.
Read article 'Carbon ions pack a punch'
Oncologist Hirohiko Tsujii talks about his work to Carolyn Lee.
Read article 'Bent silicon crystal deflects 400 GeV proton beam at the Super Proton Synchrotron'
A team working at CERN has detected the phenomenon of volume reflection using bent silicon crystals with a 400 GeV proton beam at the Super Proton Synchrotron. The efficiency achieved was greater th...
Read article 'SLAC demonstrates plasma ‘afterburner’'
A team of researchers at SLAC has shown that plasma acceleration can dramatically boost the energy of particles over a short distance.
Read article 'PSI pixels spin off into research with X-rays'
The countdown to the LHC start-up has begun, but even before the first protons have collided, pixel detectors designed for the CMS experiment are being used in other areas.
