Read article 'New bunch-production scheme breaks luminosity record'
The LHC relies on the injector complex to deliver proton beams with well-defined transverse and longitudinal characteristics, which fold directly into luminosity performance. On 16 July, LHC Oper...
Read article 'Chinese accelerator passes milestone'
Physicists in China have passed an important milestone towards an accelerator-driven sub-critical (ADS) system, a novel accelerator design for advanced energy and other technologies. On 2 July, teams...
Read article 'MAX IV paves the way for ultimate X-ray microscope'
Novel machine lattice produces brightest ever X-ray beams.
Read article 'Record-breaking production at the LHC'
The past few weeks have been a record-breaking period for the LHC, with the machine now delivering long fills with unprecedented luminosity. Following the interruption in late May due to problems with...
Read article 'AWAKE sees first beam'
CERN’s pioneering AWAKE facility, which aims to drastically reduce the scale of particle accelerators, received its first beam on 16 June. The milestone signals the next stage of commissioning f...
Read article 'BEPCII reaches its design luminosity'
A new luminosity record at the charm-tau energy region was recently broken again by the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII). The new record, 1 × 1033 cm–2s–1 at 1.89 GeV beam energy...
Read article 'The LHC: Run 2 has restarted'
At the end of March, the LHC opened its doors to allow particles to travel around the ring for the first time since the year-end technical stop began in December 2015. Progress was good, and the phase...
Read article 'The ILC project keeps its momentum high'
Résumé Le projet de collisionneur linéaire international a toujours le vent en poupe Cela fait trois ans que la communauté internationale qui planifie le Collisionneur linéair...
Read article 'Super-magnets at work'
To obtain 10 times the LHC original design luminosity, the HL-LHC will need to replace more than 40 large superconducting magnets, in addition to about 60 superconducting corrector magnets. A...
Read article 'The HL-LHC: a bright vision'
The LHC is one of the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments. Its design and construction required more than 20 years of hard work and the unique expertise of a number of e...
