Read article 'Physics aids new medical techniques'
Since the discovery of X-rays, fundamental physics has been a source of ideas for radiography and medical imaging. A new imaging method firmly rooted in particle physics was chosen by Time magazine ...
Read article 'Can carbon nanotubes handle high-energy particles?'
New types of materials suggest new ways of handling high-energy particle beams, but can carbon nanotubes handle high-energy particles? Specialists from Yerevan outline the possibilities.
Read article 'Medical accelerator is on course'
A new linear accelerator is on course to bring about important advances in cancer therapy following successful tests at CERN last year. The LIBO Linac Booster was conceived in 1993 by Ugo Amaldi (then...
Read article 'Diamonds are forever…'
At a graduation ceremony at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, technician Mik Rebak was awarded an honorary MSc for his ingenious work in engineering diamond targets in nuclear an...
Read article 'Manufacturers put their heads in the sand'
The special demands of particle physics experiments can be a challenge to suppliers. Specialist firm Electron Tubes mounted a programme for photomultiplier housings.
Read article 'Enter the quasiparticle trapping transistor'
A new device that can operate in close proximity to highly sensitive superconducting sensors could open up new detector possibilities.
Read article 'Synchrotron radiation is brighter than ever'
What began life as an unwanted energy loss has become a major research industry. Dominique Cornuéjols of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble looks at the history and accomplishm...
Read article 'No stopping the accelerator'
The recent European Particle Accelerator Conference in Vienna underlined how far and wide particle accelerators have infiltrated into science and technology. Colin Johnson reports.
Read article 'Towards the ultimate X-ray source:the X-ray laser'
With their ultrashort wavelengths, X-rays are excellent probes of finestructure. An international team at the DESY laboratory has developed a technique for attaining wavelengths of less than 100 n...
Read article 'Berkeley Lab’s ALS generates femtosecond synchrotron radiation'
A team at Berkeley's Advanced Light Source has shown how a laser time-slicing technique provides a path to experiments with ultrafast time resolution.
