Linear collider detector experts get it straight – a vision of the XFEL tunnel that is. CLIC detector engineers from CERN visited DESY last week to discuss detector challenges such as earthquake stability, alignment, assembly planning and the construction of the detector’s magnet yoke with their colleagues from the ILC’s ILD detector. They also visited […]
Proposing a fishcake shape
Kamaboko is a type of Japanese fishcake with a distinctive loaf shape, usually served sliced thin with dipping sauce such as soy sauce and wasabi or as a topping for noodles. So what does kamaboko have to do with the ILC? It is the shape of the newly proposed ILC tunnel design for an Asian […]
Virtual tunnel
TULA tunnels through
Getting a vision of tunnels
Linear collider scientists tour the Mont Blanc tunnel
Tiny particles, producing brilliant collisions as they race around an underground tunnel, are the stars of an accelerator. It’s easy to forget that people, too, must make their way around the tunnel, and that their protection merits as much attention as do flying bits of matter. A group of scientists and engineers at the International […]
A tunnel for (module) dummies
The XFEL mock-up tunnel helps scientists practice for the real thing
It feels like the real accelerator tunnel, but it’s only building 71 at DESY in Hamburg. It’s basically a tube made of concrete, 51 metres long and 5.20 metres in diameter. One accelerator module hangs from the top of the tube, water pipes, cable trays and ventilation ducts are installed and other accelerator parts stand […]
One Tunnel or Two
Director’s Corner 1 December 2005 Barry Barish One Tunnel or Two? Should we build the ILC using one underground tunnel? Or should we build it using two adjacent tunnels, one containing the support instrumentation and the other containing the accelerator? These sound like innocuous questions, but they present one of the more complex and […]
Cape Town
Director’s Corner 3 November 2005 Barry Barish Cape Town Last week, I visited Cape Town, South Africa with Jonathan Dorfan, a native of Cape Town, and Shin-ichi Kurokawa. For different reasons, each of us participated in the 25th General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) on 25-28 October 2005. Just to […]