Every scientist can tell you about the beauty of his or her research. But while a small bump in a curve may delight particle physicists, most people just see a bunch of coloured lines. And the perfection of a complex theoretical model is evident only for a select few. Probably everybody would agree that science […]
Strasbourg steers ILC towards ESRFI roadmap
The 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) is being held in Strasbourg, France from 29 October to 6 November. The opening plenary addressed a central pillar necessary to make fundamental research progress at a pace reflecting mankind’s ability to take up challenges and push the frontiers of knowledge – very large […]
Special Linear Collider Event during the IEEE Symposium
The 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, together with the Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors was held in at the Disneyland Hotel (Anaheim California), from 29 October to 3 November. A feature of this year’s symposium was a “Special Linear Collider Event.” The […]
Linear collider event during IEEE symposium in Anaheim
The recent discovery of a particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson, provides a very clear target for near-future linear collider experiments. A next-generation linear collider (LC) is currently being designed as the next large-scale experimental facility in elementary particle physics beyond the LHC. It is intended to […]
The science of showers
PhD student Christian Soldner studies time, tungsten and scintillators
Good timing is a virtue. Just as comedians have to wait for just the right moment to deliver their punch line, linear collider physicists need to know when to make cuts. These cuts separate phenomena called particle showers from each other, making it possible for the physicists to tell which reaction originated from which collision. […]
2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium
2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium As part of the 2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, a special linear collider event will be organised on 29 and 30 October 2012. (The IEEE NSS/MIC will take place at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California.) The event will include presentations of the International Linear Collider […]
From DESY inForm: Together We’re Strong
An IEEE Conference satellite workshop starts at DESY
Faster, higher, farther! The motto of this year’s Olympic Games is also valid for the development of research opportunities. But unlike the Olympic athletes who struggle to beat world records by fractions of hundredths, the development of accelerator experiments is progressing in such extreme steps that researchers have to clear completely new hurdles – their […]