KEK staff perform a facility disaster prevention and training at the accelerator test facility (ATF), recreating laboratory conditions in an emergency situation. One resourceful staff member flips open his cell phone for a light source.
Announcement – Linear Collider Town Hall Meeting
Linear Collider Town Hall Meeting – 16 May, Paris, France CERN Council will agree on a European strategy for particle physics in a special meeting held in 2013 in Brussels. An international committee has been established to prepare input from the linear collider community. The committee is requested to review the physics case for a […]
From CERN Courier: Viewpoint: Authors and supporters
Lucie Linssen and Steinar Stapnes from CLIC examine the question of authoring long-term development projects for particle physics.
While people often grasp only a fraction of the physics at stake, they easily recognise the full extent of the human undertaking. Particle-physics experiments and accelerators are, indeed, miracles of technology and major examples of worldwide co-operation and on-site teamwork.
Fly down SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source
SLAC’s new time-lapse videos, ranging from 13 to 72 seconds in length, show various sped-up scenes around the lab: clouds rolling above the klystron gallery, scientists keeping busy in the Main Control Center, and, shown here, a zipping tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Fly from one end of LCLS to the other […]
Extracting 1-millisecond beam
At KEK’s superconducting RF test facility, better known as STF, scientists are conducting beam tests of their photocathode RF gun towards beam operation of the accelerator for the Quantum Beam Project. On 22 March, scientists succeeded in the extraction of a 1-millisecond beam for a 162.5-megahertz bunch train. Pictured here is a signal from the […]
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13 March 2011 CERN Much food for thought at major physics conference
From CERN Bulletin: Rencontres de Moriond 2012
At the biggest particle physics winter conference, the Rencontres de Moriond held in La Thuile in Italy from 3-17 March, scientists presented loads of new results, including some on the search for the Higgs boson and on new physics beyond the Standard Model. The CERN Bulletin covered some of these results in last week’s edition. […]
Wrestling under an X-ray beam
A beam of particles helps authenticate an early Vincent van Gogh painting
DESY’s synchrotron radiation source DORIS has helped settle a decades-old question of whether van Gogh painted the 1886 Still life with meadow flowers. Using macro scanning X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, scientists were able to analyse the canvas’s layers of paint with greater detail than had been possible previously. Earlier X-ray analyses had shown that a painter […]
Students hunt Higgs too
Young researchers analysing real high-energy collisions from the LHC at CERN. From 27 February to 24 March, about 8000 high school students in 31 countries come to one of about 120 nearby universities or research centres for one day in order to unravel the mysteries of particle physics. Lectures from active scientists give insight in […]
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