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World Cup Snapshots
SLAC's Italian BaBarians celebrating their team's victory |
If you were anywhere in Germany during the last month you couldn't have missed it: it was football world cup. Black-red-and-golden flags flying from windows, fluttering behind cars, decorating t-shirts, socks, beer mats, faces, shop windows, newspapers. If by chance you went to Hamburg you were greeted with a beautiful array of bright blue goals shining from every high-rise roof, harbour crane and all other landmarks in the city, and the public transport system didn't only tell you when the next train was due to arrive – it also had updates on the goals of every match that was on.
Hamburg was full of blue goals celebrating the world cup
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And if, while you were in Hamburg, you paid a visit to DESY during a match you could hear the noise from the nearby football stadium through the trees. Sometimes the voice of HCal expert Erika Garutti would drift through the trees as well: on the morning of the day of the Italy – Czech Republic match in the Hamburg stadium, the organisers suddenly appeared at the DESY gates, desperate: they urgently needed an Italian to read and record announcements for the Italian football fans. Erika stopped preparing the HCal's shipment to CERN for a while and will go down in history as the voice who says in Italian 'Please have your bags ready for security checks.'
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Upcoming meetings, conferences, workshops
Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop
Vancouver, Canada
19-22 July 2006
ILC GDE Meeting
Vancouver, Canada
19-22 July 2006
2006 Linear Accelerator Conference
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
21-25 August 2006
Linear Collider Physics School 2006
Ambleside, UK
14-19 September 2006
TTC Meeting (Tesla Technology Collaboration)
KEK
25-28 September 2006
9th International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
25-29 September 2006
The International Workshop on Thin Films
Legnaro, Padua (ITALY)
9-12 October 2006
Single Crystal Niobium Technology Workshop (pdf)
Araxá mine in Brazil
30 October - 1 November 2006
Request Information (email)
ILC-ECFA Valencia Workshop
Valencia, Spain
6-10 November 2006
ILC GDE Meeting
Valencia, Spain
6-10 November 2006
USPAS
Texas A&M University
15-26 January 2007
Annual WILGA Conference
Warsaw University of Technology Resort, Poland
21-27 May 2007
GDE Meetings Calendar
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The Joy of Large Grain Niobium
Like salt crystals, niobium crystals, or grains, can be grown in either larger or smaller sizes. The individual crystals or grains can easily be seen in large-grain niobium.
(Image courtesy of JLab) |
With detailed recipes for rolling, baking and rinsing, one might think that gourmet chefs are building, designing and testing the superconducting cavities for the International Linear Collider. On a quest to design the most efficient and cost-saving cavity for the ILC, the physicists who are actually developing the recipes are not a far cry from chefs. And just as chefs experiment by mixing spices to create new flavours, scientists involved in superconducting cavity technology are trying out alternative ingredients by testing such things as large grain and single crystal niobium.
Named after Niobe, the granddaughter of Zeus, niobium is a superconductor – a substance with no electrical resistance in the superconducting state. Because niobium is the elemental superconductor with the highest transition temperature, it has been the choice material for many accelerator projects using superconducting technology; it is therefore also the material of choice for ILC cavities (see symmetry magazine, September 05). A material made up of crystals or grains, niobium can be grown in larger or smaller sizes – just like salt crystals. Large-grain niobium therefore simply consists of larger niobium crystals. While the cavities in the ILC will all be made out of solid niobium (potentially a cost upwards of 300 million dollars), manufacturing cavities from large grain or single crystal niobium may cut down on expenses by eliminating some of the treatments that are necessary for fine grain cavities.
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-- Elizabeth Clements |
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From Nature Magazine
13 July 2006
Rushed decision on collider would limit useful options
SIR — Your Editorial about the International
Linear Collider (ILC), "Making collider
endorsement count" (Nature 440, 1089;
2006), states that CERN has insisted "that
decisions about the siting of the ILC be
delayed until an accelerator technology it is
trying to develop is ready". This is untrue.
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From SciDev Net
7 July 2006
Physics in South Africa: long road to freedom
At what point does a country decide that its economy is strong enough to
allow research into particle physics? "We condemn ourselves to permanent
second-class status if we decide that we cannot do research into the
beginning of the universe," he argues.
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From FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News
6 July 2006
Senate Appropriators Approve 16.6% Increase for DOE Office of Science
The Department of Energy's Office of Science is in an excellent position going into this fall's conference committee that will determine the FY 2007 appropriation.
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From Nature Magazine
6 July 2006
Sociologist fools physics judges
After more than 30 years of studying the physicists who work on gravity
waves, spending countless hours talking to physicists and writing a book on
the history and sociology of the field, social scientist Harry Collins had a
question. Could he pass as a physicist?
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From New York Times
4 July 2006
Essay: Physics Awaits New Options as Standard Model Idles
For most people, the world is constant naïve novelty. The same cannot be said for professional physicists.
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Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop/GDE Meeting
Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop, 19-22 July 2006 |
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Gerry Dugan, GDE Americas Regional Director.
The first GDE meeting in the Americas region since the Snowmass 2005 workshop will take place next week on 19-22 July, as a joint meeting with the American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG) at the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Information about the workshop and a complete agenda are available online.
Gerry Dugan |
The meeting will bring together several hundred physicists from around the world, who are working on both the accelerator and detector aspects of the ILC. More than 150 participants have expressed an interest in attending the GDE presentations, which will be held mostly in parallel with the ALCPG sessions. There will be an introductory joint plenary session on the morning of 19 July and a closing joint plenary session on 22 July.
The GDE sessions will focus on the status of the Reference Design Report (RDR) and the accompanying cost estimate. The afternoon of 19 July and the morning of 20 July will be devoted to GDE plenary sessions in which the RDR Area, Technical and Global Systems Leaders will give reports on their work. This will be followed by a series of parallel working sessions on the afternoon of 20 July 20 and all day on 21 July. During these sessions, the working groups will be able to interact with each other, review their current issues, and make plans for the next steps in developing the RDR and cost estimate. Finally there will be three plenary sessions devoted to reports on the global R&D program on 22 July.
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-- Gerry Dugan, GDE Americas Regional Director
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ALCPG and GDE Host Town Hall Meeting at VLCW06 - Questions Needed!
The Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop is less than a week away, and the organisers need your input now. Please submit your question to communicators@linearcollider.org. Organised by the American Linear Collider Physics Group and the Global Design Effort, the purpose of this town hall meeting is to establish stronger communication between the accelerator and detector communities for the ILC. A panel comprised of GDE and ALCPG members will answer questions and moderate the discussion.
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ILC Related Preprints
hep-ph/0607104
10 Jul 2006
Combined LHC/ILC analysis of a SUSY scenario with heavy sfermions
hep-ph/0607085
7 Jul 2006
Measuring Modular Weights in Mirage Unification Models at the LHC and ILC
EUROTeV Reports
EUROTeV-Report-2006-011
Wiggler Magnet Optimization for Linear Collider Damping Ring
EUROTeV-Report-2006-014
The BDSIM Toolkit
EUROTeV-Report-2006-015
FLUKA Simulations of Energy Density Deposition from a ILC Bunch in different Spoiler Designs
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