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.
Read article 'X-ray laser pulses light up the nano-world'
An international team of scientists using the soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY has achieved a world first by taking a high-resolution diffraction image of a non-crystalline sample with one...
Read article 'Antiprotons could help fight against cancer'
A pioneering experiment at CERN with potential for cancer therapy has produced its first results.
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...
