Barbara Warmbein | 18 April 2013A concept to save space and power for future particle detectors called power pulsing has recently been tested and proven to work on one of the possible calorimeter options for the future ILC detectors. The silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter prototype took data in test beam and magnet at the German lab DESY. The project is currently run by groups from France and Japan.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: CALICE, DESY, detector R&D, electromagnetic calorimeter, France, Japan, power pulsing, test beam
Barry Barish | 7 February 2013The draft of the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) was completed last November and submitted for review. On 13 and 14 December, the TDR underwent a technical review at KEK by an augmented ILCSC Program Advisory Committee. The review report endorses the technical design we have presented and recommends “no changes in the TDR.” The report does identify areas and items to address in the future.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ATF2, cost review, detector R&D, PAC, review, Technical Design Report
Sakue Yamada | 7 February 2013In his last column in ILC NewsLine, Sakue Yamada, ILC Research director, acknowledges the tremendous collaborative effort which has made possible the accomplishment of the Physics and Detectors volumes of the ILC Technical Design Report.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: detector R&D, GDE, IDAG, letter of intent
24 January 2013The DEPFET structure is one of the candidate technologies for the creation of the most transparent pixelated detector in history. Originally developed for the ILC's predecessor TESLA and a firm candidate for the ILC experiments, it has been selected as the baseline technology for the Belle-II experiment in Japan, a shining example of technology transfer in high-energy physics. In a paper submitted to IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science the collaboration reviews its recent progress in the light of the challenging vertex detector requirements of a linear electron-positron collider at the energy frontier.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: Belle-II, DEPFET, detector R&D, synergy, tracker
Steinar Stapnes | 6 December 2012It is reporting season: the ILC community is producing the Technical Design Report that also includes the Detector Baseline Design reports, and the CLIC collaboration with associated Detector and Physics studies group have been hard at work completing the CLIC Conceptual Design Report (CDR). The documentation probably surpasses by a large amount - in scope, details and volume - what is normally called a CDR for a project, but then again, there is a lot of work to report on.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: accelerator R&D, CLIC, Conceptual Design Report, detector R&D
Barbara Warmbein | 1 November 2012A team of two scientists and four students from Shinshu University of Japan and Kyungpook National University of Korea have just packed up their cables, laptops and scintillator strips and left a test beam at DESY with many interesting results in their luggage. They tested the scintillator-strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter (ScECAL), one of the potential layers of a future ILC detector.
Category: Image of the week | Tagged: DESY, detector R&D, electromagnetic calorimeter, Japan, Korea, test beam
