Read article 'SESAME sees first beam'
Late in the evening of 12 January, a beam of electrons circulated for the first time in the SESAME light source in Jordan. Following the first single turn, the next steps will be to achieve multi-tur...
Read article 'GSI ions target irregular heartbeat'
Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, have demonstrated the feasibility of using carbon ions to treat cardiac arrhythmia, in which abnormal electrical p...
Read article 'Developing medical linacs for challenging regions'
Physicists, oncologists and industry experts are defining the design of a novel linear accelerator that will make radiotherapy more readily available in lower-resourced countries.
Read article 'CLOUD experiment sharpens climate predictions'
Future global climate projections have been put on more solid empirical ground, thanks to new measurements of the production rates of atmospheric aerosol particles by CERN’s Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor ...
Read article 'European XFEL enters commissioning phase'
On 6 October, commissioning began at the world’s largest X-ray laser: the European XFEL in Hamburg, Germany. The 3.4 km-long European XFEL will generate ultrashort X-ray flashes with a brilliance ...
Read article 'Crystal Clear celebrates 25 years of success'
The Crystal Clear (CC) collaboration was approved by CERN’s Detector Research and Development Committee in April 1991 as experiment RD18. Its objective was to develop new inorganic scintillators tha...
Read article 'Proton therapy enters precision phase'
Résumé Protonthérapie : l’ère de la précision La protonthérapie est une technique de radiothérapie innovante, qui peut traiter des tumeurs avec beaucoup plus d...
Read article 'CERN to produce radioisotopes for health'
Résumé Le CERN produira des radio-isotopes pour la médecine Le lien entre les communautés des accélérateurs et de la médecine remonte à presque 50 ans. Aujourd&...
Read article 'TRIUMF targets alpha therapy'
External-beam radiation therapy is used routinely to treat many different types of cancerous tumours, delivering a targeted dose of radiation to cancer cells while sparing surrounding healthy tissue a...
Read article 'Reactors and accelerators join forces'
Demand for medical isotopes requires reactor- and accelerator-based production methods.
