Last month, LC NewsLine reported the achievement of the world’s smallest beam size of 55 nanometres at the ATF2 facility at KEK. At two international conferences held in June and July, the next record of 44 nanometres was reported by Kiyoshi Kubo and Shigeru Kuroda. The beam line at ATF2 is designed as a prototype […]
How small can you go?
ATF2 breaks beam size records
The Americas Workshop on Linear Collider 2014 was held at Fermilab just before the approval of the P5 report, which contains the positive message calling for US participation in the planned International Linear Collider (ILC), should the project commence (see 22 May issue of LCÂ NewsLine). In the workshop, there were many presentations on technical advancements […]
Demonstrating the ILC final focus parameters
A key feature of the ILC is that it is a single-pass machine. In contrast to a circular accelerator, where the beam goes around many times, the ILC beams pass through each accelerator element only once, including the interaction point. For the accelerator, this means that for each accelerating module, the machine must be very […]