Read article 'The high-intensity frontier'
The high-intensity frontier
A high-intensity proton accelerator operating at a few giga-electron-volts would offer a wide range of opportunities for both particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'The high-intensity frontier'
Read article 'Computing at CERN: the mainframe era'
Computing at CERN: the mainframe era
Chris Jones takes a look back at the heyday of the computer mainframe through a selection of "memory bytes".
Read article 'Hands across the Mediterranean'
Hands across the Mediterranean
Scientists from North Africa, the Middle East and Europe came together in a meeting at CERN to discuss common projects in fields varying from particle physics to water desalination. Robert Klapisch re...
Read article 'When quarks and gluons become free'
When quarks and gluons become free
Recent results and future experiments were the topics in a workshop to look into exactly what happens as strongly interacting matter becomes deconfined.
Read article 'Cryogenic operations come in from the cold'
Cryogenic operations come in from the cold
A recent meeting at Jefferson Lab has inaugurated a new biennial workshop on reducing operating costs and increasing stability and reliability in a new generation of refrigeration plants for supercond...
Read article 'A marriage of pixels and proportional counters'
A marriage of pixels and proportional counters
Different technologies come together in the gas pixel detector, a device that for the first time brings very high resolving power to gas detectors, as Ronaldo Bellazzini explains.
Read article 'From bent crystals to nanostructures'
From bent crystals to nanostructures
A recent workshop in Frascati highlighted some of the exciting possibilities for future developments in channelling particle beams in ordered structures.
Read article 'MEG goes in search of the forbidden'
MEG goes in search of the forbidden
The 30th anniversary of the proton accelerator complex at PSI heralds the start of a new generation of particle-physics experiments, with the search for the decay of the muon to a positron and a photo...
Read article 'The rebirth of the FFAG'
The rebirth of the FFAG
After 50 years in waiting, fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators are at last being built - for a wide variety of applications. Michael Craddock reports on the current status.
Read article 'In the tracks of the bubble chamber'
In the tracks of the bubble chamber
Horst Wenninger pieces together many of the aspects that made the bubble-chamber programme an important part of CERN's development as an international laboratory.
