The world’s smallest ever beam size of 55 nanometres was achieved by the ATF2 facility at KEK, reported Nobuhiro Terunuma at the AWLC workshop held at Fermilab. And what is more, the results are reproducible, which means that for the ILC, a recovery after a short break would be no issue.
The ILC came away as a big winner in the P5 process, says LCC Deputy Director Hitoshi Murayama. He gives his take on the importance of the report and its expected positive impact on the ILC in this week's Director's Corner.
During a recent visit to IHEP in China, an LCC delegation discussed China’s role in the ILC project, including how China is going to participate, what China is going to contribute and who is going to join the project, with scientists from IHEP and Chinese universities. They also visited IHEP's ILC 1.3 GHz superconducting accelerator module.
The majority of the questions fielded were about the P5 report’s recommendation to form a new international collaboration that would build a long-baseline neutrino facility at Fermilab.
In the coming years, CERN researchers in Switzerland want to generate never-before seen components of matter in their particle accelerator to solve one of astrophysics biggest mysteries: the nature of dark matter.
岩手県南と宮城県北にまたがる北上山地が候補地になっている超大型加速器「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」誘致の機運を高めようと、岩手県一関市は宮城県北の自治体と連携し、同県にＰＲ看板を設置する。設置するのは宮城県気仙沼、登米、栗原、大崎４市各１カ所の国道沿いなど。(Iwate prefecture’s Ichinoseki city government cooperates with 4 cities in Miyagi prefecture, Kesen-numa, Tome, Kurihara, and Osaki, in the effort to invite the ILC to the region, put up the ILC sign board along side the road.)
Now, the man who literally wrote the book on superconducting radio-frequency technology is leading Fermilab’s Technical Division and the laboratory’s SRF program.
Physicists see both the LHC v3.0 and the ILC (or a like contraption) as essential follow-ups to their recent discoveries. Both machines would perform extra-high-precision measurements to check whether the Higgs is playing its intended theoretical roles.
