Read article 'LHC restart impresses Council'
At its 153rd session on 18 December, the CERN Council heard that the LHC had ended its first full period of operation two days earlier, following collisions at a total energy of 2.36 TeV – a world...
Read article 'Protons are back in the LHC'
During the last weekend of October, particles once again entered the LHC after the one-year interruption following the incident of September 2008, travelling through one sector in each direction – c...
Read article 'Science begins at SLAC’s new light source'
The first experiments are now under way using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Read article 'Florida lab is to build high-field ‘supermagnet’'
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University has been awarded nearly $3 million to build a high-temperature superconducting magnet that will break records for magnetic fiel...
Read article 'NDCX-II project commencing at LBNL'
Construction is beginning on the second-generation Neutralized Drift Compression eXperiment (NDCX-II), a new high-current, modest-kinetic-energy accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (L...
Read article 'Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre opens'
The Heidelberg Ion Therapy Centre (HIT) celebrated its opening at the Heidelberg University Hospital on 2 November.
Read article 'VERITAS observes the origin of cosmic rays'
The detection of very-high energy (VHE, E> 100 GeV) gamma-rays from the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82) by the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) may...
Read article 'US industry-built ILC cavity reaches 41 MV/m'
For the first time, a US-industry-made superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavity has reached and exceeded the accelerating gradient required for the envisioned International Linear Collider (ILC).
Read article 'First ions for ALICE and rings for LHCb'
Injection tests on 25–29 September delivered heavy ions for the first time to the threshold of the LHC. Particles were extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and transported along the TI...
Read article 'Nobel for optical fibres and CCDs'
2009 Nobel prize goes to Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith.
