Accelerators Archives – CERN Courier

Double plasma progress at DESY

New developments tackle two of the biggest challenges in plasma-wave acceleration: beam quality and bunch rate.

A new phase for the FCC

FCC Week 2025 took place in Vienna from 19 to 23 May.

Behind-the-scenes at Linac4, a linear accelerator under construction. It is the future starting point of the proton beams circulating in the Large Hadron Collider.

Accelerators on autopilot

Verena Kain highlights four ways machine learning is making the LHC more efficient.

Powering into the future

Nuria Catalan Lasheras and Igor Syratchev explain why klystrons are strategically important to the future of the field – and how CERN plans to boost their efficiency above 90%.

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European strategy update: the community speaks

A total of 263 submissions range from individual to national perspectives.

Taking geodetic measurements for the FCC

FCC feasibility study complete

The final report of a study investigating the technical and financial feasibility of a Future Circular Collider at CERN was released on 31 March.

Leading the industry in Monte Carlo simulations for accelerator applications

Particle-beam technology has wide applications in science and industry. Specifically, high-energy x-ray production is being investigated for FLASH radiotherapy, 14 MeV neutrons are being produced ...