Report on the 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference

The 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14-19 May and was attended by more than 1,550 people from 34 different countries.

EPS Accelerator Group announces 2017 prize-winners

The European Physical Society Accelerator Group (EPS-AG) has announced the winners of the 2107 Accelerator Prizes, to be presented on 18 May during the International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC’17, which will take place in Copenhagen (DK).

Lyndon Evans of CERN, Geneva (CH) will receive the Rolf Wideröe Prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field (without an age limit). He is rewarded for his many major professional accomplishments in the field of accelerator design, construction and operation.

ICFA Mini-Workshop on Impedances and Beam Instabilities in Particle Accelerators

The ICFA Mini-Workshop on Impedances and Beam Instabilities in Particle Accelerators will be held in Benevento (Italy) from  September 19 to 22, 2017. The workshop continues the tradition of dedicated conferences on beam coupling impedances, initiated with the 2014 ICFA mini-Workshop on “Electromagnetic Wake Fields and Impedances in Particle Accelerators” held in Erice, organized by [...]

LHC delivers collisions at record energy

After a three-month winter maintenance stop, the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] at CERN has resumed operation, with beams, on 14 March. Two days later, low intensity beams were accelerated to 4 TeV for the first time, achieving a new world record.

During the preceding month, all machine components – including almost 2,000 superconducting magnet circuits – were tested for operation at currents which allow these accelerating beams of up to 4 TeV…