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Baseline Technical Review 4 – conventional and unconventional facilities

by Barry Barish

The fourth and final Baseline Technical Review was held at CERN on 22 and 23 March. The completion of this review marks an important milestone en route to producing the ILC Technical Design Report. The subject matter of this final review was conventional facilities, including a variety of site-dependent issues.

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From CERN Bulletin: Much ado about Nothing – exploring the vacuum with the LHC

Empty space is anything but. Remove everything you can from an area of space and it will still bustle with activity. A veritable abundance of particles and all-pervasive fields fill space with energy. Empty space even weighs something. Indeed, studying ‘nothing’ can tell us almost everything about the universe we live in.

Learn more about the relationship between vacuum and “virtual” particles, the Higgs boson, supersymmetry and dark energy

Video of the week

Fermilab’s Cryomodule 2 installation

Video: Jim Shultz

Last week Fermilab's Cryomodule 2 was transported to the laboratory's NML building. Watch trucks, cranes and people move and install the ILC-type cryomodule in a time-lapse video.

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