Read article 'Right on target: CNGS gets off to an excellent start'
Six years after its construction began, the CNGS facility at CERN has sent its first batch of neutrinos 732 km to Gran Sasso in Italy in a highly successful commissioning run.
Read article 'POSIPOL 2006 lines up options for ILC and CLIC'
Experts from around the world came to CERN to discuss the production of polarized positrons for future linear colliders, using the Compton back-scattering technique.
Read article 'EPAC’06 showcases the latest in accelerators'
EPAC’06: une vitrine pour les accélérateurs La belle ville historique d’Edimbourg, en Écosse, a constitué le cadre de la dixième conférence européenne su...
Read article 'The longest journey: the LHC dipoles arrive on time'
The 1232 superconducting dipole magnets are the key elements for the LHC. Their production by three different industry suppliers involved a bold contractual procedure, which has proved to be highly su...
Read article 'LHC dipole installation gets to half-way mark'
The installation of the 616th dipole for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 12 July marked the half-way point for the machine's 1232 dipole magnets.
Read article 'Japanese source starts lasing at 49 nm wavelength in VUV'
On 20 June, the SPring-8 Compact SASE Source (SCSS) prototype accelerator generated its first pulses at a wavelength of 49 nm in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region.
Read article 'LHC start-up confirmed for 2007'
First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will occur in November 2007, LHC project leader Lyn Evans told the 137th meeting of the CERN Council on 23 June.
Read article 'Pisa pushes new frontiers'
The island of Elba, off the coast of Tuscany, hosted the 10th Pisa meeting on frontier detectors, a quarter of a century since the meetings began. Giorgio Chiarelli reports.
Read article 'FLASH produces the shortest wavelength yet'
On 26 April, the vacuum-ultraviolet and soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) facility at DESY generated pulses at the shortest wavelength yet, using electron bunches supplied by the TESLA Test Facilit...
Read article 'Canadian modules take up position at LHC'
As the many pieces of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments come together at CERN, Canada's contributions to the project are moving into their final positions.
