Accelerators Archives – Page 59 of 88

CMS: a super solenoid is ready for business

In the spring of 2007 the powerful superconducting solenoid for the CMS experiment had passed its commissioning tests with flying colours and was ready for routine operation.

J-PARC linac accelerates hydrogen ions up to 181 MeV design value

On 24 January the linac for the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) successfully accelerated a beam of negative hydrogen ions up to 181 MeV, the design energy for Phase I of the projec...

U70 proton synchrotron goes ahead with stochastic extraction

The new advanced slow stochastic extraction (SSE) system at the U70, the 70 GeV proton synchrotron at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, has operated successfully during normal...

LUMI’06 takes strides towards LHC upgrade

The LUMI'06 workshop, which took place in Valencia, brought together experts from Europe, Japan and the US to review scenarios for increasing the LHC's luminosity.

LHC on course for 2007 start-up

As the final countdown begins towards the scheduled start-up of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN later this year, work on the machine and the experiments has seen a series of achievements during the ...

BEPCII makes progress towards switch-on

The BEPCII project, a major upgrade and natural extension of the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPC), has passed an important milestone with beam now circulating in the outer ring and the sync...

NSCL reveals plans for $500 million upgrade

A detailed white paper published on 7 December outlines plans for a capability upgrade of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) located at Michigan State University.