Read article 'Systems engineers find their way to San Jose'
Control systems engineering in particle physics laboratories has many applications, as the ICALEPCS 2001 conference showed. Axel Daneels and Rusty Humphrey report.
Read article 'Cancer therapy initiative is launched at CERN'
The European Network for Research in Light-Ion Hadron Therapy (ENLIGHT) has been established to coordinate European efforts in radiation therapy using light-ion beams. Light to physicists, carbon ions...
Read article 'Accelerator science needs more brain power'
Although the application of accelerators to science grew in the early 20th century, Maury Tigner says that further technical advances depend on greater intellectual input.
Read article 'Record-breaking magnet has five-tesla field'
A group of laboratories in Grenoble has built a permanent magnet that produces a world-record field of 5 T at room temperature.
Read article 'Biology research becomes crystal clear'
A new range of PET instrumentation, based on research and development experience from high-energy physics experiments, aims to provide biology researchers with powerful tools to monitor the effects o...
Read article 'Take a deep breath of nuclear spin'
A technique based on using spin-oriented nuclei of helium-3, which has been developed for nuclear physics experiments, also has impressive capabilities for lung imaging.
Read article 'Crystals put spin on particle beam action'
New investigations being made into the behaviour of charged particle beams as they pass through crystals suggest that the very high electric fields inside these crystals could be used to orient the sp...
Read article 'Plasma-gas refraction improves on crystals'
Experiments using a high-energy electron beam at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center have shown the way in which such a beam can be bent as it crosses the boundary between a plasma and a gas.
Read article 'Lasers make light work'
In May CERN Courier covered the Signatures of the Invisible art exhibition, which opened in London earlier this year and showcased the results of a collaboration between physicists from CERN and art...
Read article 'Major instrumentation meeting visits Europe'
An expert, runs the saying, is one who knows more and more about less and less. An annual mecca for instrumentation experts is the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear and P...
