Read article 'Technological spinoffs from accelerators'
Technological spinoffs from accelerators
The May 1994 issue of the Courier featured an article by Oscar Barbalat about the industrial benefits of particle accelerators.
Read article 'Technological spinoffs from accelerators'
Read article 'Needles in high-speed haystacks'
Needles in high-speed haystacks
The new generation of big proton–proton colliders now being planned in Europe and the US aims to open up the collision physics of the constituent quarks and gluons hidden deep inside the proton. Loc...
Read article 'Computing in high energy physics'
Computing in high energy physics
The 1989 Computing In High Energy Physics conference weighed up the challenges of analysing LEP and other data.
Read article 'ALEPH coil hits the road'
ALEPH coil hits the road
The giant 1.5 T superconducting solenoid for the ALEPH experiment at LEP demanded special tooling for winding, impregnation, fitting and transport, as the July 1987 issue reported.
Read article 'Detector trends by Georges Charpak'
Detector trends by Georges Charpak
Every year sees the emergence of new breeds of detectors and the improvement of existing ones, but the innovations which go on to make a significant impact on physics research are limited. The large i...
Read article 'ALEPH'
ALEPH
Our previous issue carried the first of a series of articles (DELPHI, page 27) on the four major experiments for CERN’s 9 kilometre diameter LEP electron–positron ring, now under construction an...
Read article 'The microprocessor boom'
The microprocessor boom
High energy physics still has a lot to gain from microprocessor applications, wrote the Courier in 1979.
Read article '400 GeV machine vacuum and r.f. progress'
400 GeV machine vacuum and r.f. progress
With construction of the Super Proton Synchrotron in full swing, the May 1975 issue of the Courier published a progress report on its vacuum and radio-frequency systems.
Read article 'Much ado about nothing'
Much ado about nothing
In November 1972, CERN’s Roger Calder described in detail the unprecedented vacuum system of the world’s first hadron collider, the Intersecting Storage Rings.
Read article 'Computers, Why?'
Computers, Why?
In March 1972 – the year Intel’s 8008 processor was launched and the compact disc invented – CERN’s Lew Kowarski explained why computers were here to stay.
