Read article 'Polarized photocathodes make the grade'
Future linear colliders will require high levels of performance from their electron sources. A group at SLAC has recently tested a structure that substantially exceeds current collider polarized elect...
Read article 'Smooth surfaces give boost to TESLA superconducting cavity'
Accelerating cavities for the proposed TESLA superconducting electron-positron collider routinely achieve the 25 MV/m accelerating gradient that is required to achieve a collision energy of 500 GeV in...
Read article 'Fermilab turns up the heat on electron cooling'
A technique that was first proposed by Gersh Budker in 1966 is being injected with new life by a team of physicists at Fermilab in the US. Kurt Riesselmann reports.
Read article 'Systems engineers find their way to San Jose'
Control systems engineering in particle physics laboratories has many applications, as the ICALEPCS 2001 conference showed. Axel Daneels and Rusty Humphrey report.
Read article 'Cancer therapy initiative is launched at CERN'
The European Network for Research in Light-Ion Hadron Therapy (ENLIGHT) has been established to coordinate European efforts in radiation therapy using light-ion beams. Light to physicists, carbon ions...
Read article 'Accelerator science needs more brain power'
Although the application of accelerators to science grew in the early 20th century, Maury Tigner says that further technical advances depend on greater intellectual input.
Read article 'Record-breaking magnet has five-tesla field'
A group of laboratories in Grenoble has built a permanent magnet that produces a world-record field of 5 T at room temperature.
Read article 'Biology research becomes crystal clear'
A new range of PET instrumentation, based on research and development experience from high-energy physics experiments, aims to provide biology researchers with powerful tools to monitor the effects o...
Read article 'Take a deep breath of nuclear spin'
A technique based on using spin-oriented nuclei of helium-3, which has been developed for nuclear physics experiments, also has impressive capabilities for lung imaging.
Read article 'Crystals put spin on particle beam action'
New investigations being made into the behaviour of charged particle beams as they pass through crystals suggest that the very high electric fields inside these crystals could be used to orient the sp...
