Read article 'Free-electron laser achieves 10 kilowatts'
The free-electron laser (FEL) located at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and supported by the Office of Naval Research achieved 10 kW of infrared laser lig...
Read article 'The high-intensity frontier'
A high-intensity proton accelerator operating at a few giga-electron-volts would offer a wide range of opportunities for both particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'A marriage of pixels and proportional counters'
Different technologies come together in the gas pixel detector, a device that for the first time brings very high resolving power to gas detectors, as Ronaldo Bellazzini explains.
Read article 'From bent crystals to nanostructures'
A recent workshop in Frascati highlighted some of the exciting possibilities for future developments in channelling particle beams in ordered structures.
Read article 'The rebirth of the FFAG'
After 50 years in waiting, fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators are at last being built - for a wide variety of applications. Michael Craddock reports on the current status.
Read article 'The time projection chamber turns 25'
Since its birth 25 years ago, the time projection chamber has developed into a mature technology that is used in many fields, as Spencer Klein describes.
Read article 'Superconductivity links physics and medicine'
The 2003 Nobel prizes in physics and physiology or medicine both have connections with the field of particle physics.
Read article 'Physics helps medicine gain a sharper view'
The second International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences (ITBS) was held on 26-30 May in Athens and on the island of Milos, Greece. The conference was organized by the Greek ...
Read article 'Germanium crystals measure position'
Germanium crystals have long been used to study photons with energies from 50 keV to 10 MeV. Their excellent energy resolution (approaching 0.1%) has created numerous applications in nuclear and parti...
Read article 'Faster, brighter, shorter'
A proposed new facility, called LUX, will be able to combine accelerator and laser systems to study ultrafast dynamics across a wide range of sciences.
