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 'Major instrumentation meeting visits Europe'
An expert, runs the saying, is one who knows more and more about less and less. An annual mecca for instrumentation experts is the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear and P...
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 'Precision beams for hadron therapy'
Increased life expectancy goes hand in hand with support from science. At present, about one in three of us will have an encounter with cancer and, in developed countries, about one in eight will have...
Read article 'Technological spinoffs from accelerators'
The May 1994 issue of the Courier featured an article by Oscar Barbalat about the industrial benefits of particle accelerators.
Read article 'High voltage in vacuum'
This article from July 1969 looked into the future of very high voltage in vacuum.
