China has officially launched scientific operations at the High Intensity Heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) ...

CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for four years to prepare a major upgrade that could transform particle physics.

Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research ...

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, on June 29.

Facility in country's south will help scientists answer some of the biggest questions in nuclear physics, according to its ...

IOTA, the new test accelerator, gives researchers rich and varied opportunities to dive deep into the physics of particle beams. On August 21, a beam of electrons successfully circulated for the first ...

How it could work: electrons are injected into the dielectric laser accelerator (centre) from a source at the top left. The cavities are within the turquoise and gold bars, which are illuminated with ...

Physicist Tor Raubenheimer explores the world by climbing rocks and designing particle accelerators. What do particle accelerators and craggy outcrops have in common? Both have Tor Raubenheimer ...

Taking the helm: Lia Merminga will become the seventh director of Fermilab when she takes up the position on 18 April. (Courtesy: Allan Johnson, Fermilab) The particle physicist Lia Merminga has been ...

TO GET to Edda Gschwendtner’s experiment, you enter a small, brutalist building at CERN, Europe’s particle physics laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. You head into the lift and ...