Read article 'Isotope source hits target'
The ISAC on-line isotope source at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory recently achieved its full design energy. Paul Schmor and Jean-Michel Poutissou describe the experiments scheduled for the source.
Read article 'Super Proton Synchrotron marks its 25th birthday'
A quarter of a century ago, CERN's gleaming new Super Proton Synchrotron supplied its first proton beams. Although no longer the spearhead of CERN's research programme, the machine has become a vital ...
Read article 'First African school for instrumentation'
A recent instrumentation school held near Cape Town, South Africa, reflected the increasing worldwide appeal of fundamental physics. The first such school to be held on the African continent, it gen...
Read article 'Lasers make light work'
In May CERN Courier covered the Signatures of the Invisible art exhibition, which opened in London earlier this year and showcased the results of a collaboration between physicists from CERN and art...
Read article 'The observatory at the end of the Earth'
Physics student Torsten Schmidt of DESY Zeuthen regularly undergoes the ultimate terrestrial physics experience - living and working at the South Pole with the AMANDA neutrino experiment. In this in...
Read article 'LHC lattice magnets enter production'
With the start-up of CERN's Large Hadron Collider just five years away, the laboratory's new flagship accelerator is moving firmly from prototyping to production. R&D is coming to an end and contrac...
Read article 'Can gas detectors still compete with silicon?'
The big topic of debate at the 9th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation held in February was whether gaseous detectors can still compete with semiconductor technology.
Read article 'TESLA project goes public'
The DESY laboratory in Hamburg recently published plans for a superconducting linear electron-positron collider: TESLA. This article amplifies these ambitious plans and outlines the objectives of th...
Read article 'Nuclear collisions reach the central plateau'
The world's first heavy-ion colliding beam machine, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven, came on line late last year. At a recent conference, RHIC experiments revealed the initi...
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...
