Scientific workshops don’t really need ice breakers, but the CLIC workshop, held from 18 to 22 January at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, had one nevertheless. Coinciding with the first day of the workshop, CERN’s new Director-General Fabiola Gianotti gave her inaugural address to the lab, presenting CERN’s high-energy physics plans for the coming years and […]
Many small klystrons for operability and flexibility
The design of the International Linear Collider has recently changed from featuring two tunnels to just one. This means many aspects of the tunnel design have to be re-thought – including the distribution of the radiofrequency power, the acceleration technology of choice for the ILC’s superconducting cavities. In addition to the klystron cluster scheme, the […]