Read article 'DESY awards two building contracts for European XFEL'
The 3.4 km long research facility will be located between the DESY site at Bahrenfeld and the neighbouring town of Schenefeld.
Read article 'New training PARTNERship joins the battle against cancer'
On 16–17 October members of a new four-year, EU-funded project met at CERN for the kick-off meeting of the Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER)
Read article 'Physics of Semiconductors in High Magnetic Fields'
This book describes the basic concepts of various physical phenomena in semiconductors and their modulated structures under high magnetic fields.
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.
