Read article 'Workshop pushes proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration'
PPA09, a workshop held at CERN on proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration, has launched discussions about a first demonstration experiment using a proton beam.
Read article 'SN 2009bb: where are the gamma rays?'
Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are associated with peculiar supernova explosions and a long-lived radio afterglow emission has been detected for some of them. So the discovery of relativistic radio ej...
Read article 'AGILE and Fermi see a flaring microquasar'
The two currently operating high-energy gamma-ray satellites have both detected Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3) during episodes of strong radio flaring. These first detections of a genuine microquasar in our gal...
Read article 'BELLA will boost plasma accelerator research'
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is set to explore further the high-gradient acceleration of electron beams using ultra-short pulse lasers with the construction of a new facility – BELLA, the B...
Read article 'Extreme light rises in Eastern Europe'
A new international player has entered the arena of intense short-pulse coherent light technology, with the latest developments in the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) European project, which was la...
Read article 'Ten nations sign up for European XFEL project'
On 30 November, representatives from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and Switzerland signed the "Convention concerning the Construction and Opera...
Read article 'UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays'
The recent success comes just one year after the facility first achieved energy recovery.
Read article 'US niobium-tin superconducting magnet reaches 200 T/m'
A focusing magnet based on niobium-tin superconductor, built by members of the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP), has reached the design gradient of 200 T/m.
Read article 'CERN to be reference lab for ITER’s superconductor tests'
The fourth meeting of the Steering Committee of the CERN/ITER Collaboration Agreement took place at CERN on 19 November.
Read article 'LHC restart impresses Council'
At its 153rd session on 18 December, the CERN Council heard that the LHC had ended its first full period of operation two days earlier, following collisions at a total energy of 2.36 TeV – a world...
