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.
Read article 'FLASH is in full swing again'
On 2 September, user operation resumed at the FLASH free-electron laser (FEL) at DESY in Hamburg after a major upgrade that boosted its energy to 1.2 GeV and its wavelength to 4.45 nm.
Read article 'PETRA III begins research operations'
DESY’s new X-ray source, PETRA III, has begun operating for the international scientific community, with the first external users welcomed at the third-generation synchrotron source.
Read article 'WMO and WIPO sign co-operation agreements with CERN'
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), both based in Geneva, have signed co-operation agreements with CERN.
Read article 'JINR and CERN begin a new phase of collaboration'
Equipment destined for a new project at JINR, Dubna, has been shipped from CERN.
Read article 'CLIC/CTF3 goes truly global'
The agreement, which is an addendum to the standard CLIC/CTF3 memorandum of understanding, specifies the contribution of ACAS to the CLIC/CTF3 Collaboration.
Read article 'Cosmic accelerators may be at work in the Milky Way'
Measurements by the Pierre Auger Observatory may provide evidence of natural nuclear accelerators at work in the local galaxy, the Milky Way.
