Read article 'Brilliant future for PETRA III'
Brilliant future for PETRA III
DESY is to convert its storage ring PETRA into one of the most modern third-generation X-ray sources in the world.
Read article 'Brilliant future for PETRA III'
Read article 'A new life for Indiana’s cyclotron'
A new life for Indiana’s cyclotron
The Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) was originally built as a laboratory for medium-energy nuclear physics, and began operations in 1975. By the 1990s the research programme had begun to ...
Read article 'The ring on the parking lot'
The ring on the parking lot
Thirty years ago, a handful of tenacious physicists put up a $5 million storage ring on a parking lot at SLAC. Shawna Williams reflects on its glorious past and its promising future.
Read article 'Wigglers give CESR a new charmed life'
Wigglers give CESR a new charmed life
In early March, after more than 23 years of continuous operation, the CESR staff and the CLEO collaboration at Cornell completed their programme of b quark physics.
Read article 'HERA II puts collisions in a spin'
HERA II puts collisions in a spin
This is a first not only for DESY, the laboratory that is home to HERA, but also for the world.
Read article 'China agrees upgrade of its particle collider'
China agrees upgrade of its particle collider
On 10 February, the Chinese government approved the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider Upgrading Program (BEPCII), finally making the long expectation of the Chinese high-energy physics community a re...
Read article 'DAFNE goes hypernuclear'
DAFNE goes hypernuclear
A new experiment at the Frascati laboratory's φ-factory is set to investigate the strange world of the hypernucleus.
Read article 'Induction acceleration looks to the future'
Induction acceleration looks to the future
It was a milestone event in the history of induction accelerators when more than 55 experts assembled at KEK in October 2002 for an international workshop on Recent Progress in Induction Accelerators ...
Read article 'LHC magnets pass two milestones'
LHC magnets pass two milestones
The new year at CERN has seen good news for two types of magnet that will be essential to focusing beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read article 'LCLS gets funding as TESLA wins support'
LCLS gets funding as TESLA wins support
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), which passed the US Department of Energy's "Critical Decision 1" process in October 2002, has been allo...
