Read article 'UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays'
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 'UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays'
Read article 'US niobium-tin superconducting magnet reaches 200 T/m'
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'
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'
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...
Read article 'Protons are back in the LHC'
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...
Read article 'Science begins at SLAC’s new light source'
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.
Read article 'Florida lab is to build high-field ‘supermagnet’'
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...
Read article 'NDCX-II project commencing at LBNL'
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...
Read article 'Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre opens'
Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre opens
The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre (HIT) celebrated its opening at the Heidelberg University Hospital on 2 November.
Read article 'VERITAS observes the origin of cosmic rays'
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...
