Read article 'Tungsten-crystal target boosts positron intensity at KEKB linac'
A new tungsten monocrystalline positron target has generated an intense positron beam at the injector linac of the KEK B-factory (KEKB).
Read article 'Serendipity at the Antiproton Decelerator opens the way to new antiproton chemistry'
Most experiments at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN involve laser or microwave studies of atoms such as antiprotonic helium and antihydrogen.
Read article 'CDF collaboration finds new baryons that contain b quarks'
Researchers at the Tevatron at Fermilab have found two new heavy particles and two of their excited states.
Read article 'KEDR continues the quest for mass precision'
The KEDR collaboration has precisely measured the τ lepton mass.
Read article 'Rectificatif'
This article in French makes a small correction from the CERN Courier November 2006 issue.
Read article 'Finding the speed limit for galactic positrons'
A new analysis of diffuse galactic gamma-ray data sets constraints on the initial energy of positrons produced in the centre of our galaxy. This limitation to at most a few mega-electron-volts severel...
Read article 'Wakefield exceeds 1 GeV in 3.3 cm'
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), together with colleagues from the University of Oxford , have accelerated electrons to more than 1 GeV in only 3.3 cm. This i...
Read article 'Mather and Smoot share Nobel for precise observations of the CMB'
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 recognizes research that studies the young universe, before the first stars were born and before galaxies began to form.
Read article 'Researchers unveil the PASER: a novel acceleration scheme'
Researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have used the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to demonstrate the feasib...
Read article 'LHC prepares for cooling while magnets pass the 1000 mark'
The first cryogenic feedbox designed to supply electricity to the superconducting magnets for one of eight arcs has been installed at Point 8 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
