Read article 'CERN to produce radioisotopes for health'
Résumé Le CERN produira des radio-isotopes pour la médecine Le lien entre les communautés des accélérateurs et de la médecine remonte à presque 50 ans. Aujourd&...
Read article 'Energetic protons boost BNL isotope production'
Accelerator upgrades will help to meet the demand for strontium-82.
Read article 'TRIUMF targets alpha therapy'
External-beam radiation therapy is used routinely to treat many different types of cancerous tumours, delivering a targeted dose of radiation to cancer cells while sparing surrounding healthy tissue a...
Read article 'CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge'
A trigger upgrade helps CMS tame collision environment of LHC Run 2
Read article 'Storage ring steps up search for electric dipole moments'
The fact that we and the world around us are made of matter and only minimal amounts of antimatter is one of the fundamental puzzles in modern physics, motivating a variety of theoretical speculations...
Read article 'Belle II super-B factory experiment takes shape at KEK'
Following in the footsteps of Belle at the KEKB facility, a new super-B factory will search for new weak interactions in the flavour sector.
Read article 'MAX IV paves the way for ultimate X-ray microscope'
Novel machine lattice produces brightest ever X-ray beams.
Read article 'Ghosts in the machine'
In July 1956, in a brief paper published in Science, a small team based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US presented results from an experiment at a new, powerful fission reactor at the S...
Read article 'Neutrinos take centre stage'
When CERN was founded in 1954, the neutrino was technically still a figment of theorists’ imaginations. Six decades later, neutrinos have become the most studied of all elementary particles. Several...
Read article 'DUMAND and the origins of large neutrino detectors'
In 1976, neutrinos did not yet have the prominent role in particle physics that they play today. Postulated by Pauli in 1930, they had been said to be undetectable due to their tiny interaction...
