Even if the ILC can’t solve the remaining riddles of particle physics yet, its development already does some good. The latest example: two labs at DESY where components for the ILC are developed and tested helped to improve physics classes at German high schools. Ten German teachers participated in the first teacher training programme about […]
A new lodger at HERA
Image: DESY The optical inspection system OBACHT at DESY moved to a new lab roughly 25 metres below the surface in one of the former experimental halls of the HERA accelerator. Becoming good neighbours – OBACHT and HERA!
Progress report for the European ILC-HiGrade project
Last week, collaborators from the ILC-HiGrade European Commission Framework 7 Project gathered at CERN, Switzerland for their annual meeting. Each project work package, from cavity, coupler and tuner production to ILC governance studies, was reviewed on 25 February. The ILC-HiGrade project is conducted by six European institutions: DESY, CEA, CERN, CNRS/IN2P3, INFN and Oxford University. […]
Thirty perfect cavities: liftoff!
European ILC-HiGrade project officially launched
There are many official stages to a project financed by the European Commission – from call, proposal, negotiations, contract draft, start of work, annual reports to one of the most official events: the kick-off meeting. Europe’s new flagship project on cavity production and exploration of international governance structures, ILC-HiGrade took this step last week. Representatives form […]
New hope for Europe
Director’s Corner 31 July 2008 Brian Foster New hope for Europe Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster, GDE European Regional Director. My last Director’s Corner in January summarised the situation in Europe as far as it could be discerned through the still-settling dust after "Black December". Six months later, it is appropriate […]
From interactions.org: Five million Euros to prepare Europe for the International Linear Collider
The partners of the ‘ILC-HiGrade’ proposal for the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme have just started a contract for five million Euros funding over the next four years with the European Commission. ‘ILC-HiGrade’ stands for ‘International Linear Collider and High Gradient Superconducting RF-Cavities.’ One of the main objectives of the proposal is a small serial […]
High grades for HiGrade
It’s the age of electronic mail, but in the last weeks Eckhard Elsen from DESY took several trips per day to his snail mail in-tray down the corridor because he was waiting for an important letter. Then finally a letter and an email arrived from Brussels saying that contract negotiations for a six-lab proposal managed […]