Read article 'Superconducting RF separator emerges from its long sleep'
he first superconducting high-frequency device made for particle physics has begun a new life at the U-70 proton synchrotron at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) at Protvino.
Read article 'LHC restart remains on schedule'
At the 151st session of the CERN Council on 19 June, director-general Rolf Heuer confirmed that the LHC remains on schedule for a restart this autumn, albeit about 2–3 weeks later than originally ...
Read article 'Knocking on the door again'
The LHC's anti-clockwise beam transfer system was tested on 6 and 7 June.
Read article 'CERN Courier Archives: 1959–2009'
A selection of highlights from the past 50 years.
Read article 'KEKB breaks luminosity record'
A team working at the KEKB electron–positron collider at the KEK laboratory in Japan has broken the machine’s existing world record for luminosity by using new accelerator components calle...
Read article 'Final magnet for sector 3-4 goes underground'
The final magnet – a quadrupole short straight section – to refit sector 3-4 of the LHC was lowered into the tunnel and transported to its location on 30 April, two weeks after the 39th and fina...
Read article 'BEPCII/BESIII accumulates 100 million ψ(2S) in Beijing'
After five years of construction, the upgraded Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII) and the new Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) finished accumulating their first large data set of more than 100...
Read article 'T2K beamline starts operation'
On 23 April, the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment confirmed the first production of the neutrino beam by observing the muons produced by the proton beam in the neu...
Read article 'PETRA III stores its first positron beam'
DESY's new third-generation synchrotron radiation source, PETRA III, accelerated its first beam on 16 April. At 10.14 a.m. the positron bunches were injected and stored in the 2.3 km accelerator f...
Read article 'FFAGs enter the applications era'
After a series of preliminary tests held on 26–27 February the Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University (KURRI) received a national licence to conduct experiments for an accelerator-driven su...
