Read article 'ECLOUD12 sheds light on electron clouds'
ECLOUD12 sheds light on electron clouds
Workshop brings the experts together.
Read article 'ECLOUD12 sheds light on electron clouds'
Read article 'LHC delivers for the summer conferences'
LHC delivers for the summer conferences
With more luminosity delivered by the LHC between April and June 2012 than in the whole of 2011, the experiments had just what the collaborations wanted: as much data as possible before the summer con...
Read article 'One billion J/ψ events in Beijing'
One billion J/ψ events in Beijing
In a 40-day run ending on 22 May, the Institute of High-Energy Physics in China accumulated a total of 1.3 billion J/ψ events at the upgraded Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII) and Beijing ...
Read article 'LHCf: bringing cosmic collisions down to Earth'
LHCf: bringing cosmic collisions down to Earth
Data from the LHC are providing input for models used to measure the highest-energy cosmic rays.
Read article 'CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. The European Physical Journal H 36 (4).'
CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. The European Physical Journal H 36 (4).
Christine Sutton reviews in 2012 CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. The European Physical Journal H 36 (4).
Read article 'Ramping up to higher luminosity'
Ramping up to higher luminosity
After a flying start, with the first stable beams at the new energy of 4 TeV on 5 April, the LHC successfully operated with 1380 bunches per beam – the maximum planned for 2012 – on 18 April.
Read article 'LHC yields data rapidly at new collision energy of 8 TeV'
LHC yields data rapidly at new collision energy of 8 TeV
At 12.38 a.m. on 5 April, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams" as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC’s four interaction points.
Read article '4 TeV: the goal for 2012'
4 TeV: the goal for 2012
Running the LHC at 4 TeV per beam in 2012 was a key outcome of this year's LHC Performance workshop in Chamonix.
Read article 'NSRRC considers ultrafast X-ray source'
NSRRC considers ultrafast X-ray source
With a view to sustaining a large-scale facility at a time of worldwide economic crisis and soaring energy costs and to provide efficient use of beam time, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research ...
Read article 'GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy'
GUINEVERE: towards cleaner nuclear energy
A particle accelerator has been successfully coupled to a nuclear reactor for the first time at the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre.
