Barbara Warmbein | 17 September 2015Calorimeter prototypes have been taking showers at CERN – particle showers, that is. Detector developers have just packed up their equipment after finishing a campaign to understand the time structure of hadron showers. And they are happy with what they achieved. Find out how a beer chiller played a role in the test beam as well…
Category: Around the World | Tagged: CALICE, calorimeter, CERN, DESY, detector R&D, Fermilab, KEK, MPI, particle flow, test beam
Mike Harrison | 30 April 2015The organisers arranged a special “Tokyo Event”, to highlight the benefits of the ILC to Japanese society. More than 400 politicians, industry, media and workshop participants heard about the Tokyo Statement, Japanese demographics and followed a panel discussion that included the claim that physicists come across as ignorant. Mike Harrison sums up his impressions.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ALCW2015, CERN, DESY, IPMU, Japan, Tokyo Statement, Tokyo Symposium, TRIUMF, University of Tokyo
Barbara Warmbein | 22 January 2015Good news for detector developers in Europe: the AIDA-2020 proposal to the European Commission has been selected to be funded as part of the Horizon 2020 programme. This means that future projects needing state-of-the-art particle detectors like the Large Hadron Collider upgrade and the linear collider will receive a total of ten million euros funding over the next four years. Thirty-eight participants from all across Europe take part in AIDA2020, including CERN as coordinating institute, making it the largest European detector R&D project.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: CERN, DESY, detector R&D, European Union, gaseous detectors, LHC upgrade, Linear Collider, microelectronics, software
Thomas Zoufal (DESY) | 20 March 2014Usually it’s basic research – especially for particle accelerators – that pioneers new technology. But in this case the researchers obviously had a little inspirational snoop at Levi’s or any other jeans manufacturer’s. Recently, DESY’s superconducting TESLA cavities have started to be surface-treated with a stonewashing equipment – accelerators stonewashed, so to say.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: accelerator R&D, cavity gradient, DESY, European XFEL, superconducting cavity
Gerrit Hörentrup (DESY) | 19 December 2013One-stop (work)shopping for high-gradient cavities: in a new lab at DESY in Hamburg all inspection and treatment processes for cavities come together under one roof to make treatment faster and more reliable and prepare for serial production.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: DESY, ILC R&D, superconducting cavity
