Read article 'Linac4 parts arrive from near and far'
After a journey from Siberia of more than 13,000 km, a special delivery arrived at CERN on 14 September, bringing modules for Linac4, the new four-stage injector being built for the laboratory’s a...
Read article 'Celebrations, challenges and business as usual'
Champagne corks popped on 13 September as the LHC confirmed its potential as a multipurpose machine and successfully switched to a new running mode with proton–ion collisions.
Read article 'Using the LHC as a photon collider'
The protons and nuclei accelerated by the LHC are surrounded by strong electric and magnetic fields. These fields can be treated as an equivalent flux of photons, making the LHC the world’s most pow...
Read article 'SLAC at 50: honouring the past and creating the future'
Founded in 1962, the home of the famous linac went on to make ground-breaking discoveries in particle physics and to evolve in the face of a changing scientific landscape.
Read article 'CEBAF: a fruitful past and a promising future'
Achievements and prospects at Jefferson Lab’s electron facility.
Read article 'Summer running at the LHC'
The LHC has delivered more than twice as many collisions to the ATLAS and CMS experiments this year as it did in all of 2011.
Read article 'BELLA laser achieves 1PW at 1 pulse a second'
The laser system of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) has achieved a world record for laser performance by delivering 1 PW of power in a 1 Hz pulse only 40 fs long.
Read article '3D cooling for uranium collisions at RHIC'
Techniques to shrink the beams of the heaviest ions ever used in a collider.
Read article 'Proton run for 2012 extended by seven weeks'
An important piece of news that was almost lost in the excitement of the Higgs update seminar on 4 July is that the LHC proton run for 2012 is to be extended.
Read article 'The PS Booster hits 40'
The evolution of a key machine at CERN.
