Read article 'European XFEL project passes milestones'
On 3 September, the tunnel-boring machine TULA – for TUnnel for Laser – broke through the wall of its reception shaft to complete the first 480 m of the tunnel system for the European XFEL proje...
Read article 'Fermilab constructs accelerator test facility'
When complete, the prototype accelerator will comprise six cryomodules like this first example. Each weighs about 8 tonnes and contains eight SRF cavities.
Read article 'Jefferson Lab goes into the ultraviolet'
The free-electron laser (FEL) at Jefferson Lab has produced its first beams at ultraviolet wavelengths.
Read article 'Countries sign international treaty on construction of FAIR'
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) was officially launched on 4 October in Wiesbaden.
Read article 'Elettra operates in top-up mode'
Elettra, the 2/2.4 GeV third generation Italian light source, has successfully joined the synchrotron facilities that operate fully in top-up mode.
Read article 'Exoplanet hunters find rich planetary systems'
The time when isolated extrasolar planets were discovered is over, with the detection of two entire systems of six and possibly even seven planets orbiting nearby stars. These recent discoveries by tw...
Read article 'Bunch trains lead towards target luminosity'
Three weeks of intense machine development on the LHC came to a satisfying conclusion on the night of 21 September with the final validation of the machine-protection systems for operation with "bunc...
Read article 'AMS takes off for Kennedy Space Center'
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, left Geneva on 26 August on the penultimate leg of its journey to the International Spac...
Read article 'ATLAS puts limits on excited quarks'
The collaboration has set its limits for the hypothesised particle outside of the Standard Model.
Read article 'The LHC gets set for more luminosity'
Recent work by the operations team at the LHC has focused on pushing the machine’s performance towards higher luminosity and into new territory in terms of stored beam power.
