Read article 'Authors and supporters'
The first “high-energy” accelerators were constructed more than 80 years ago. No doubt they represented technological challenges and major achievements even though, seen from a 2012 p...
Read article 'Towards a more confident future'
Gloom and despondency about the economic climate fill the newspapers to saturation point. The eurozone is, once again, destined to fragment and disappear – there is a depressingly strong sensati...
Read article 'Trends in isotope discovery'
It all started innocently enough with a review article I wrote in 2004 about the nuclear driplines, which described the exploration of the most neutron- and proton-rich isotopes (Thoennessen 2004). Th...
Read article 'Accelerator-driven systems for nuclear energy'
An ADS system involves a fuel configuration where the neutrons necessary to establish a sustainable fission chain reaction are produced by spallation of a target by an accelerator.
Read article 'From the Tevatron to Project X'
Pier Oddone on the end of Tevatron's run.
Read article 'CERN and the EPS: a joint endeavour'
The European Physical Society (EPS) was founded at CERN in 1968. Today it represents more than 100,000 physicists through its 41 national member societies and it provides a scientific forum ...
Read article 'Optimizing potential'
Rolf Heuer discuss' the annual trip to Chamonix
Read article 'Collide – a cultural revolution'
Would you employ me to run the LHC? Or perhaps to run an experiment at CERN with antimatter? After all, I have an abiding interest in physics – ever since an inspiring science teacher sparked my...
Read article 'CERN – the knowledge hub'
If you ask 10 people working at CERN how they would describe what CERN is in a single sentence, the chances are that you will get 10 different answers. Most people think of CERN, first and f...
Read article 'Profiting from the long view'
We can measure and analyse accumulated superconducting RF (SRF) operating experience in broad, high-level terms using the “cryomodule century”, or CC. Ten cryomodules operating for a decad...
