Read article 'BESSY shines bright in the far-infrared'
The BESSY synchrotron light source in Berlin has developed a technique to provide intense, steady-state, broadband coherent radiation in the far-infrared - or terahertz (THz) - spectral range.
Read article 'Doubly doped semiconductor makes a fast scintillator'
At cryogenic temperatures some semiconductors can convert ionizing radiation into visible light with high efficiency and speed.
Read article 'Silicon photomultiplier demonstrates its capabilities'
A team from the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute together with Pulsar Enterprise in Moscow have developed a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), which promises a wide range of applications.
Read article 'LANL develops bespoke cavities for low-energy applications'
Superconducting (SC) RF cavities are becoming common in accelerators for high-energy and nuclear physics, and the technologies needed to obtain high fields and high-quality factors in elliptical cavit...
Read article 'Physicists and statisticians get technical in Durham'
Particle physicists and statisticians got together in Durham, UK, last March to discuss statistical techniques of relevance to particle and astroparticle physics analysis. Conference initiator Louis L...
Read article 'Accelerators for nano- and biosciences'
Practical, affordable yet unique and exciting new accelerator facilities could advance vital research capabilities for nano- and bioscience, says Swapan Chattopadhyay.
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.
