Read article 'CERN Council opens the door to greater integration'
At its 155th session, on 18 June, the CERN Council opened the door to greater integration in particle physics when it unanimously adopted the recommendations of a working group that was set up in 200...
Read article 'Strategy meeting looks forward to high-power laser acceleration'
A meeting at GSI Darmstadt on 8–10 April provided a first opportunity to formulate a strategy on the laser technology needed to meet the challenge of future accelerators that will use or rely on la...
Read article 'CERN and JINR sign new agreement'
CERN and JINR have a long and successful history of collaboration – the first informal meeting on international co-operation in the field of high-energy accelerators took place at CERN in 1959 – a...
Read article 'Romania takes first steps to join CERN'
On 11 February the Romanian minister of education, research, youth and sport, Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, signed an agreement that formally recognizes Romania as ...
Read article 'Extreme light rises in Eastern Europe'
A new international player has entered the arena of intense short-pulse coherent light technology, with the latest developments in the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) European project, which was la...
Read article 'Ten nations sign up for European XFEL project'
On 30 November, representatives from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and Switzerland signed the "Convention concerning the Construction and Opera...
Read article 'Looking beyond the LHC'
A CERN Theory Institute investigated the impact of early LHC data.
Read article 'Accelerator R&D gets a collaborative boost'
All about EuCARD, a new four-year project centred on accelerator R&D.
Read article 'DOE allocates Fermilab an additional $60.2 million'
In the latest instalment of funding from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Fermilab is to receive an additional $60.2 million to ...
Read article 'MSU will host new rare-isotope facility…'
The US Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a new research facility to advance the understanding of rare nuclear iso...
