Read article '40 years of CERN’s Proton Synchrotron'
CERN's Proton Synchrotron achieved its first high-energy beams 40 years ago. The pioneers at CERN had dared to follow a new, untested route in a bid to become the world's highest energy machine. Now, ...
Read article 'An even greater step for LEP'
On 24 September 1999 the French authorities gave their formal permission for CERN's LEP electronpositron collider to run at beam energies of up to 105 GeV.
Read article 'ECRIS feeds transuranic nuclei experiments'
These exotica nuclei are produced by bombarding a suitable nuclear target with a high-energy beam of specially prepared nuclei and studying the resulting decay chains in a suitable detector.
Read article 'LEP pursues Higgs boson and greater W precision'
While we wait for a definitive sighting of the enigmatic Higgs particle, there is no lack of careful precision work for the experiments at CERN's LEP electronpositron collider. Bob Clare of MIT look...
Read article 'CERN gears up for deceleration'
Antiprotons have been a highlight of close-of-the-century physics. CERN's Antiproton Decelerator will continue this tradition into the 21st century.
Read article 'Zen and the art of low-energy antiproton experiments'
A recent workshop in Japan set the scene for a range of experiments at CERN's AD machine, which will synthesize and explore atoms of antimatter. John Eades reports.
Read article 'ISAC achieves 10 µA'
The new isotope separator and accelerator facility at the Canadian TRIUMF laboratory passed a milestone on 28 July when the proton current on target was raised to 10 µA, making it the highest intensi...
Read article '200 GeV achieved for 2000'
In the last 10 years electroweak, physics has been transformed from a subtle effect into big science. At the forefront of this effort has been CERN's LEP electronpositron collider, which is now cele...
Read article 'A good BaBar gain'
The BaBar experiment represents “a new mode of US experimentation”, said Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) director Burt Richter at the experiment’s formal dedication on 13 A...
Read article 'Physicists focus on quest for Bs'
The physics of B particles is a major new focus of world particle physics research. A session at the recent lepton-photon symposium provided a useful overview.
