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We need to talk: ILD checks performance at other Higgs factory proposals than ILC

New detector concept strategy identifies work programme for the near future

| 17 November 2022

One thing is pretty certain: the next big machine in particle physics is most likely going to be an electron-positron “Higgs factory” collider. What is not so certain is which of the different collider options currently being considered will be realised. The ILD collaboration, creator of one of the two detector concepts for the International […]

Detector experts meet in Ichinoseki

| 5 April 2018

Scientists working in large international collaborations are used to travelling the world and seeing new places. But scientists travelling to Kitakami in northern Japan, the area where the ILC would likely get built if it is approved, tend to return with one prominent tale to tell: that of the support of the local public. ILC […]

Mark Thomson to lead STFC

| 1 March 2018

Universities and Science Minister Sam Gyimah has today announced that Professor Mark Thomson has been selected to be Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), following a fair and open competition. Professor Thomson is a Professor in Experimental Particle Physics based at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and has an extensive background […]

Pandora: opening the box for neutrino experiments

| 16 February 2017

Pattern recognition rules in particle physics. When particles collide, many things happen at the same time and in a very fast sequence within fractions of a second. In order to tell everyday events from rare ones, particle physicists use pattern recognition software to quickly scan and classify pictures from the collisions. A software development kit […]

Bump or no bump

That was a question at the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Chicago

| 11 August 2016

From 3rd August to 10th August the International Conference of High Energy Physics (ICHEP) took place at the Sheraton Hotel in the heart of the windy city. More than 1400 scientists, students and industrial representatives from all around the world were attending this major conference to present their research and discuss exciting results in High […]

The new ILD structure

| 23 June 2016

The International Large Detector (ILD) is one of two detector concepts which are under study for the International Linear Collider. ILD started about ten years ago with the merger of two different concept groups. The concept group developed a detector design which was documented in the ILC’s Technical Design Report TDR. Over the past few […]

Fresh funding for technical detector prototypes

| 3 September 2015

Thirty new active calorimeter layers, two engineering prototypes and some ten PhD theses – and that’s only part of the expected harvest of the recent funding approval for detector R&D targeted also towards the ILC in Germany. The German research ministry will support the universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, Siegen and Wuppertal with 1.8 […]

Calorimeters don’t take holidays

| 6 August 2015

Summer breaks don’t exist for detector prototypes. For almost three weeks in July – around the time that a new temperature record of 39.7 degrees was measured in Geneva – the team working on the technological prototype of a potential hadronic calorimeter for the ILD detector at the ILC took data at the Super Proton […]

InGrids on the rise

| 16 April 2015

The InGrid chip is an ingenious little thing. It is essentially a Timepix chip equipped with 256×256 pixels. On top of these sits a grid that features a hole over each pixel. Within the 50-µm gap, a strong electric field is generated. This means that electrons flying through one of those holes feel this field and are […]

Summer students reunite at test beam

| 26 November 2014

Many physicists have extremely fond memories of their time as a summer student at labs like DESY in Germany or CERN in Switzerland. Some even describe it as pivotal because they decided to choose particle physics as their area of specialisation after being immersed in a real research environment, surrounded by people with the same […]