Everyone knows Pac-Man, that omnivorous yellow blob. But wait! The acronymologists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have come up with another interpretation: PACMAN now stands for “Particle Accelerator Components’ Metrology and Alignment...
At its 2011 meeting, organized in Spain last September, the International Magnetic Measurement Workshop (IMMW) celebrated its 30th birthday. The retrospective presented by Louis Walckiers from CERN took a look back at the history of the great particle accelerators...
The next large-scale facility in preparation at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is an X-ray-free electron laser, named the SwissFEL. This national project aims to provide one of the world’s most brilliant light beams by the time it will go into operation in 2016....