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Protons are back in the LHC

During the last weekend of October, particles once again entered the LHC after the one-year interruption following the incident of September 2008, travelling through one sector in each direction – c...

Science begins at SLAC’s new light source

The first experiments are now under way using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Florida lab is to build high-field ‘supermagnet’

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University has been awarded nearly $3 million to build a high-temperature superconducting magnet that will break records for magnetic fiel...

NDCX-II project commencing at LBNL

Construction is beginning on the second-generation Neutralized Drift Compression eXperiment (NDCX-II), a new high-current, modest-kinetic-energy accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (L...

Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre opens

The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre (HIT) celebrated its opening at the Heidelberg University Hospital on 2 November.

VERITAS observes the origin of cosmic rays

The detection of very-high energy (VHE, E> 100 GeV) gamma-rays from the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82) by the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) may...

US industry-built ILC cavity reaches 41 MV/m

For the first time, a US-industry-made superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavity has reached and exceeded the accelerating gradient required for the envisioned International Linear Collider (ILC).

First ions for ALICE and rings for LHCb

Injection tests on 25–29 September delivered heavy ions for the first time to the threshold of the LHC. Particles were extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and transported along the TI...