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KEK continues to work for the ILC

Natural disasters have not deterred KEK from looking to the future of the ILC

by Rika Takahashi

Atsuto Suzuki, director general of KEK in Tsukuba, Japan, states that despite the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March, no changes have been made to KEK’s ILC-related plans.

Feature

Seamless cavity performance

Laboratories in the US begin to take a serious look at hydroforming as a method for creating ILC-type cavities.

by Leah Hesla

Fermilab and Jefferson Lab redouble efforts on hydroformed cavities through R&D and industrialisation.

Director's Corner

ILCSC reviews GDE progress and plans

by Barry Barish

The International Linear Collider Steering Committee met in Beijing in February and carried out their review of the Global Design Effort progress. They also had lively and informative discussions regarding the future of the worldwide efforts towards the ILC and beyond 2012.

Image of the week

Power recovery at KEK, Japan

Image: KEK

Power cable being recovered at the Accelerator Test Facility at KEK in Japan (April 2011).

In the News

  • From NIU Today
    6 April 2011
    Chakraborty has led design of calorimeters and software that would be used at the proposed International Linear Collider, a next generation accelerator.
  • From New York Times
    5 April 2011
    Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are planning to announce Wednesday that they have found a suspicious bump in their data that could be evidence of a new elementary particle or even, some say, a new force of nature.
  • From Interactions
    1 April 2011
    Scientists from across the world are celebrating the successful start up of the pioneering EMMA accelerator which is set to impact fundamental science and change the way such particle accelerators across the world are designed and built in the future.
  • From Nature
    1 April 2011
    A revised calculation suggests that around 3% of particles have gone missing from nuclear reactor experiments.
  • From physorg.com
    31 March 2011
    In new work, high-energy physicists have observed two long-sought quantum states in the bottomonium family of sub-atomic particles. The result will help researchers better understand one of the four fundamental forces of the universe — the strong force — that helps govern the interactions of matter.
  • From physicsworld.com
    31 March 2011
    This video report for physicsworld.com brings an update from the particle-physics lab near Geneva on the search for the Higgs and new physics beyond the Standard Model.
  • From symmetry breaking
    30 March 2011
    Physicists at the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider recently reported the first observations of a new way that particles called Bs mesons decay into other particles. Studying this particular decay could provide clues as to why the universe is made up of matter rather than antimatter.