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Crescendo for European infrastructures

Looking back on the first year of AIDA

by Barbara Warmbein

The AIDA community takes stock of its first year of R&D activities. Twenty-three European countries are working on a variety of infrastructures that help today's researchers plan the detectors of the future - from linear colliders to neutrino facilities.

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Akira Yamamoto: new year, new role

by Rika Takahashi

You may know Akira Yamamoto as an ILC Project Manager. Already head of KEK’s cryogenics science centre, he is now wearing a third hat for the next Japanese fiscal year, as he has just been appointed new head of KEK's Linear Collider Project Office.

Director's Corner

HEPAP: advising DOE on the particle physics programme

by Barry Barish

HEPAP is the official advisory body to DOE for high-energy physics. At their recent meeting from 12 to 13 March, they dealt with US high-energy physics budgets, including future year projections, and how to reconcile them with the US high-energy physics programme. In the process, they covered a wide variety of topics ranging from the future of the US accelerator R&D programme to next-generation dark matter searches.

Image of the week

Light in the darkness

Image: KEK

KEK staff perform a facility disaster prevention and training at the accelerator test facility (ATF), recreating laboratory conditions in an emergency situation. One resourceful staff member flips open his cell phone for a light source.

In the News

  • from Black Hills Pioneer
    10 April 2012
    DOE calls for even larger dark matter experiment

    Sanford Underground Research Facility head Dr. Kevin Lesko said his team is working with collaborations that are responding to a Department of Energy call for proposals for a “next-generation” dark matter experiment.

  • from symmetry breaking
    9 April 2012
    Tevatron experiment confirms LHC discovery of Chi-b (P3) particle

    In December, scientists on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC announced that they had unearthed in their data a never-before-seen particle composed of two bottom quarks, called Chi-b (P3). The DZero collaboration now has made public in a paper submitted to Physical Review D that they also see the Chi-b (P3) particle.

  • from BBC News
    5 April 2012
    LHC is back with big energy boost

    Early on Thursday, opposing stable beams of protons were smashed into each other at four observation positions. The total collision energy in these bunches of sub-atomic particles was eight trillion electron volts (8TeV) – a world record.