Read article 'High-gradient X-band technology: from TeV colliders to light sources and more'
Powerfult linear-accelerator technology developed for fundamental exploration is being transferred to applications beyond high-energy physics
Read article 'SwissFEL carries out first experiment'
The free-electron X-ray laser SwissFEL at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has hosted its inaugural experiment, marking the facility’s first science result and demonstrating that its...
Read article 'Baby MIND takes first steps'
In mid-October, a neutrino detector that was designed, built and tested at CERN was loaded onto four trucks to begin a month-long journey to Japan. Once safely installed at the J-PARC laboratory in To...
Read article 'EU project lights up X-band technology'
Advanced linear-accelerator (linac) technology developed at CERN and elsewhere will be used to develop a new generation of compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), thanks to a €3 million project...
Read article 'Construction of protoDUNE detector begins'
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US, the cavern for which entered construction this summer, will make precision studies of neutrinos produced 1300 km away at Fermilab as part o...
Read article 'Powering the field forward'
Particle physicists try to understand the environment that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang by studying the behaviour of particles at high energies. Early studies relied on cosmic rays...
Read article 'Unique magnets'
To identify particles emerging from high-energy interactions between a beam and a fixed target, or between two counter-rotating beams, experimental physicists need to measure the particle tracks with ...
Read article 'Get on board with EASITrain'
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes won his Nobel prize back in 1913 two years after the discovery of superconductivity; Georg Bednorz and Alexander Müller won theirs in 1987, just a year after discovering high-t...
Read article 'Superconductors and particle physics entwined'
Superconductivity is a mischievous phenomenon. Countless superconducting materials were discovered following Onnes’ 1911 breakthrough, but none with the right engineering properties. Even today, mor...
Read article 'Taming high-temperature superconductivity'
After 30 years, a theory is within reach for high-T superconductors.
