Read article 'Particle accelerators take up the fight against cancer'
Sixty years ago accelerator pioneer Robert Wilson published the paper in which he proposed using protons for cancer therapy. Ugo Amaldi and Gerhard Kraft describe how the field has since advanced, as ...
Read article 'New COMET brings a promising future to proton therapy'
PROSCAN, the proton-therapy facility at PSI in Switzerland is about to resume patient treatment after commissioning a new dedicated superconducting proton accelerator, COMET. This will take the projec...
Read article 'FLASH breaks more records and reaches the water window'
Using the Free-electron LASer in Hamburg (FLASH), DESY has established a new world record, generating pulses of laser light at wavelengths between 13.5 and 13.8 nm with an average power of 10 mW and...
Read article 'Parametric X-ray radiation yields new tool to detect relativistic nuclei'
Researchers at the Nuclotron at the Laboratory for High Energies at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, have observed parametric X-ray radiation (PXR) from moderately relativistic ...
Read article 'FLASH produces the shortest wavelength yet'
On 26 April, the vacuum-ultraviolet and soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility at DESY generated pulses at the shortest wavelength yet, using electron bunches supplied by the TESLA Test Facilit...
Read article 'ENLIGHT++ extends cancer therapy research network'
ENLIGHT++ étend le réseau de recherche sur le traitement du cancer par les ions légers La réunion préparatoire du réseau ENLIGHT++ s’est tenue au CERN en mars, rass...
Read article 'Micro-pattern technology gets set for more challenges'
A recent meeting at CERN reviewed the progress in the development of micro-pattern gas detectors for current and future particle-physics experiments.
Read article 'First results for the VUV-FEL radiation source'
The first measuring period for external users at the vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser (VUV-FEL), the new ultraviolet and X-ray radiation source at DESY, ended successfully on 27 February.
Read article 'Mammography database targets breast cancer'
There would be great benefits if clinicians around the world could gain access to a common support resource in diagnosing breast cancer.
Read article 'Last major component installed at CNGS'
The magnetic system that focuses the beam of particles arising from the graphite target of the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso project (CNGS) has been installed in its final position in the tunnel.
