Read article 'ATLAS of the world'
1800 physicists from 33 countries are participating in the ATLAS experiment, the largest detector being built for CERN's LHC collider. CERN Courier asked ATLAS Spokesperson Peter Jenni how the collab...
Read article 'Electron–positron pioneer'
In 1960 Bruno Touschek gave a talk on electron-positron collisions that would change the face of physics. Last November, 20 years after his death, physicists gathered to celebrate Touschek's work.
Read article 'In retrospect: electron scattering in Amsterdam'
The recent closure of the Amsterdam Pulse Stretcher marks the end of 30 years of electron accelerators in the Netherlands.
Read article 'Synchrocyclotron survivor to bow out after 50 years'
After 15 years in physics, Harvard University's 160 MeV machine was converted into a cancer therapy centre. Having treated over 7500 patients in the ensuing 34 years, it is being phased out after tw...
Read article 'The mysteries of cosmic rays'
Until the advent of high-energy accelerators in the 1950s, high-energy cosmic rays were the main source of information on subnuclear particles. Now they are back in the research spotlight and unexpla...
Read article 'Exploring new trends in electron cooling'
The invention and development of electron cooling by Gersh Budker's team in Novosibirsk in the late 1960s and early 1970s set physics on a new route to discovery. Electron cooling has become crucial f...
Read article 'Quarks in hadrons and nuclei'
The idea of quarks as the ultimate constituents of strongly interacting particles has long been conventional dogma. Less well known, but no less important, is the role of quarks in nuclei. A recent ...
Read article 'Molecular sticky tape'
The 1998 EPS-IGA prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field was awarded to CERN’s Cris Benvenuti for “major breakthroughs in achieving ultra-high vacua in storage rings”.
Read article 'HERMES heralds insight into nucleon spin'
In which direction do quarks point? The HERMES experiment using DESY's HERA electron ring and an ingenious system to control the spin of the electron beam is poised to reveal new insights into the...
Read article 'GSI treats cancer tumours with carbon ions'
Germany's national laboratory for heavy-ion physics, GSI in Darmstadt, turns pure science to the service of humanity with a cancer treatment facility using carbon ions.
