Read article 'Cold technology for future linear collider'
The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) has accepted that superconducting technology should be used for a future electron-positron linear collider in the energy range 0.5 to 1.0 TeV...
Read article 'HERA gets set to demonstrate its full potential'
It has been a long and hard struggle to get HERA back into successful operation after a challenging upgrade in 2000 and 2001.
Read article 'PHOENIX provides successful charge breeding at ISOLDE'
A key development for the future of high-energy radioactive ion-beam facilities is the efficient and fast "charge-state breeding" from singly charged ions at low energies (10-60 keV).
Read article 'A machine for learning'
Ilan Ben-Zvi describes Brookhaven's facility for long-term R&D in advanced accelerator physics, which he directed until recently.
Read article 'The high-intensity frontier'
A high-intensity proton accelerator operating at a few giga-electron-volts would offer a wide range of opportunities for both particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'B-factory improvements deliver 1 fb-1 a day to Belle'
This peak luminosity is equivalent to the production of 14 B-meson - anti-B-meson pairs every second, and Belle is now accumulating approximately one million B pairs every day.
Read article 'Cryogenic operations come in from the cold'
A recent meeting at Jefferson Lab has inaugurated a new biennial workshop on reducing operating costs and increasing stability and reliability in a new generation of refrigeration plants for supercond...
Read article 'The rebirth of the FFAG'
After 50 years in waiting, fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators are at last being built - for a wide variety of applications. Michael Craddock reports on the current status.
Read article 'BEPC stops running and begins major upgrade programme'
With the blow of a whistle at 8 a.m. on 30 April, the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) finished running and the installation of its major upgrade, BEPCII, began.
Read article 'Russian neutron complex looks to future research programme'
The future possibilities for research at the neutron complex of the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was the topic of a workshop that took place in Moscow ...
