Read article 'LHC restart impresses Council'
At its 153rd session on 18 December, the CERN Council heard that the LHC had ended its first full period of operation two days earlier, following collisions at a total energy of 2.36 TeV – a world...
Read article 'Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles'
Gordon Fraser reviews in 2009 Collider: The Search for the World’s Smallest Particles.
Read article 'Protons are back in the LHC'
During the last weekend of October, particles once again entered the LHC after the one-year interruption following the incident of September 2008, travelling through one sector in each direction – c...
Read article 'Science begins at SLAC’s new light source'
The first experiments are now under way using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Read article 'NDCX-II project commencing at LBNL'
Construction is beginning on the second-generation Neutralized Drift Compression eXperiment (NDCX-II), a new high-current, modest-kinetic-energy accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (L...
Read article 'Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre opens'
The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre (HIT) celebrated its opening at the Heidelberg University Hospital on 2 November.
Read article 'Looking beyond the LHC'
A CERN Theory Institute investigated the impact of early LHC data.
Read article 'US industry-built ILC cavity reaches 41 MV/m'
For the first time, a US-industry-made superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavity has reached and exceeded the accelerating gradient required for the envisioned International Linear Collider (ILC).
Read article 'First ions for ALICE and rings for LHCb'
Injection tests on 25–29 September delivered heavy ions for the first time to the threshold of the LHC. Particles were extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and transported along the TI...
Read article '…while the LHC gets colder and colder'
The cool-down and commissioning of the LHC continues to progress well.
