Hot out of the oven, Saclay team improves cavity baking process
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Before accelerating electrons and positrons, cavities need to undergo a number of treatments, such as chemical and electropolishing, the last one being baking. The standard baking procedure heats the cavity at 120°C for two days with an ultra high vacuum (UHV) requirement. These very restrictive conditions are unfortunately not appropriate for the treatment of 16,000 cavities that the ILC requires. At Saclay, France, the DAPNIA laboratory has been working on RF cavities for about 15 years, within the TESLA collaboration. Their cavity baking facility recently reached a milestone, showing that the baking time could be reduced to three hours and the UHV conditions may not be necessary, which would be more compatible for mass production of cavities.
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Upcoming meetings, conferences, workshops
SiD Fermilab Workshop
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
9-11 April 2007
The LHC Early Phase for the ILC
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
12-14 April 2007
TESLA Technology Collaboration Meeting
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
23-26 April 2007
MAC Meeting
Fermilab
26-27 April 2007
DOE/NSF ILC Americas Regional Team Review
Fermilab
30 April - 2 May
ILC Software and Tools Workshop
LAL - Orsay
2-4 May 2007
CALICE Collaboration Meeting
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
10-12 May 2007
Annual WILGA Conference
Warsaw University of Technology Resort, Poland
21-27 May 2007
POSIPOL 2007 Workshop
LAL-Orsay, France
23-25 May 2007
 LCWS 2007
Hamburg, Germany
30 May - 4 June 2007
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China on the walkway
towards the ILC
The Temple of Heaven, a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design in Beijing symbolises the relationship
between earth and heaven - the human
society and the universe - which stands at the heart of Chinese cosmology.
It was the central image on the poster for the 9th ACFA ILC Physics &
Detector Workshop and ILC GDE Meeting in February 2007 at IHEP in Beijing,
where the ILC reference design and preliminary cost were officially
announced. Although the walkway towards the ILC is as long as that in the
Temple of Heaven, China is now taking steady steps and making more
contributions to the realisation of the ILC. This interest manifests itself
in the Chinese scientists' unanimous support for China's participation in
the ILC, which has been demonstrated during the Fragrant Mountain Meeting,
held at the end of 2006, the expanding collaboration with KEK and other labs
worldwide, the ILC GDE Meeting held in Beijing this February, and the
various R&D efforts in progress at IHEP and other institutes.
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From Cern Courier
April 2007
ICFA releases ILC design report
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From Physicsworld
April 2007
A triangle that matters
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From Le Journal du CNRS
April 2007
Horizon 2020: les ambitions du CNRS
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From Symmetry Magazine
Mar/Apr 2007
Focus on the Future
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From Symmetry Magazine
April 2007
Toward an International Linear Collider
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From Symmetry Magazine
Mar/Apr 2007
The ILC’s reference design
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From Interactions.org
2 April 2007
A New Dawn in Scientific Research
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From Science Magazine
29 March 2007
String Theory, With No Holds Barred
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GDE to sponsor Second International School for Linear Colliders
Poster for the 2nd International School for Linear Colliders |
I am pleased to announce that the second accelerator school dedicated to linear colliders will be held from 1-10 October 2007 at Ettore Majorana Center, Erice (Sicily), Italy under the sponsorship of the ILC GDE, ILCSC and ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel.
The demand for success of our first accelerator school held last year in Japan has motivated us to follow up with a second school in Europe this year, and we plan a third one in the U.S. next year. The primary focus of the school will be on the International Linear Collider (ILC), but it will also cover multi-TeV colliders, such as the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). The school is directed toward graduate students from universities around the world, postdoctoral fellows, junior researchers, and physicists interested in changing their career from experimental physics to accelerator physics. Detailed information on the school can be found
online.
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-- Barry Barish
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LCWS 07 Early Registration Deadline
The LCWS2007/ILC workshop and GDE meeting will take place at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, from 30 May to 3 June 2007.
The deadline for early registration is 15 April 2007.
more information
ILC-Related Preprints
physics/0703243
28 Mar 2007
Micromegas TPC studies at high magnetic fields using the charge dispersion signal
hep-th/0703239
27 Mar 2007
Noncommutative QED corrections to process e+ e- → μ+ μ- γ at linear collider energies
EUROTEV Reports 2006
EUROTeV-Report-2006-025
Fast Injection Kickers for DAΦNE and ILC Damping Rings
EUROTeV-Report-2006-079
Selection of the optimum Magnet Design for the International Linear Collider Positron Source Helical Undulator
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