Oscar Barbalat

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the LEP tunnel

After the remarkable start-up of LEP, the installation of a Large Hadron Collider, LHC, in the LEP tunnel will open a new era for the High Energy Physics. This report summarizes the main LHC parameters and subsytems and describes the more recent studies and developments.

Acceleration and Stacking of Deuterons in the CERN PS and ISR

Deuteron acceleration in the CERN 50 MeV Linac has been tried out already 13 years ago followed by programmed acceleration in tne CPS up to about 100 MeV.

From fundamentals to waste disposal

From its inception – in the form of J J Thomsons cathode ray tube, used to discover the electron – to the present giant colliders, the particle accelerator has been intimately associated with the major milestones of nuclear and particle physics. Today it is widely used in nearly every field of physics from elementary particles to solid state. It is also essential in many other research areas to study structures in chemistry and biology or to perform sensitive trace element analysis. Its application range is being extended considerably by the capability to generate synchrotron radiation (very intense, highly collimated, polarized beams of electromagnetic radiation produced by accelerating electrons to very high energies). Progress in nuclear and particle physics that originated from studies with accelerators is now playing a determining role in astrophysics and cosmology.