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Many scientists working on ILC detector simulation know: Mokka can give you sleepless nights. This has nothing to do with caffeine, however - Mokka is a software that lets you run full simulations of events in future ILC detectors. It uses the Geant4 simulation tool, and ILC detector people around the world use it – and struggle with it sometimes. If you're one of those people and are looking for answers (or maybe you want to share a particularly interesting line of code?), the website forum may be the right place for you.
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-- Barbara Warmbein |
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Upcoming meetings, conferences, workshops
CLIC07
CERN
16-18 October 2007
 ALCPG 2007
Fermilab
22-26 October 2007
2007 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
27 October - 3 November 2007
CARE07 Annual Meeting
CERN
29-31 October 2007
CCAST ILC Accelerator Workshop and 1st Asia ILC R&D Seminar
IHEP, Beijing, China
5-7 November 2007
ILC EDMS Power User Training
DESY
26-30 November 2007
International Vacuum Symposium, IVS-2007
Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR, Colaba, Mumbai, India
28-30 November 2007
Symposium Poster, Symposium Brochure
Upcoming schools
US Particle Accelerator School
UC at Santa Cruz
14-25 January 2007
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GDE Meetings calendar
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ILC physicists build their dream house
Engineers, accelerator and detector physicists initiate dialogue at IRENG07
Older detectors can still teach us new tricks as the IRENG07 participants inspected the rollers of the SLD detector at SLAC. |
Be it a house renovation or even a proposed particle accelerator, anyone involved in a construction project can appreciate the 1948 classic film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. In a memorable scene, the married couple meets with their architect, who presents them with the plans for their home. Mr. and Mrs. Blandings proceed to mark up the plans until they are no longer recognisable, turning the mere home into their dream home. Sure, there is the minor detail of the chimney going through the middle of Mrs. Blanding's sewing room, but that is the architect's problem to figure out, right?
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-- Elizabeth Clements |
2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg
Albert Fert (photo: Invisuphoto)
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Peter Grünberg (photo: © Forschungs- zentrum Jülich)
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This year's physics prize is awarded for the technology that is used to read data on hard disks. It is thanks to this technology that it has been possible to miniaturize hard disks so radically in recent years. Sensitive read-out heads are needed to be able to read data from the compact hard disks used in laptops and some music players, for instance. Read the whole Physics Nobel Prize press release.
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From Nobelprize.org
9 October 2007
Physics Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance".
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From Fermilab Today
8 October 2007
Sacha Kopp: Letter to the Editor
I write in response to the recent Director’s Corner by Barry Barish, "Fermilab and Project X," reprinted in the September 20 edition of Fermilab Today.
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From Columbia Spectator
8 October 2007
International Atom-Smashing
... We are currently on the brink of a new phase in high energy physics: the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful accelerator ever built, is scheduled to open next year in Switzerland. Plans are also in the works for the International Linear Collider, a sort of sister-accelerator to the LHC.
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From BBC Radio 4 - In our Time
4 October 2007
Antimatter
...Since then physicists have created antimatter in the laboratory and we even use it in our hospitals, but antimatter remains fundamentally mysterious – there should be much more of it around but there isn’t and to understand why may bring us closer to understanding events at the origin of the universe.
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Unified versus plug compatible designs
ILC cryomodule cutaway view |
We are now making the transition from completing the International Linear Collider reference design to beginning the engineering design phase by holding a set of kick-off meetings to cover the major areas of the machine. The ILC project managers have organised this intensive set of meetings in order to interact closely with task leaders and team members who will be responsible for carrying out the actual design tasks. The meetings are covering a broad spectrum of issues that need to be understood before drawing up detailed work packages that will define our work toward the Engineering Design Report. The kick-off meetings cover issues that vary from organisational ones and technical topics to subjects that will have important consequences in the design work. A very good example of the difficult questions currently under discussion is to what extent we will require unified designs versus plug compatible designs for the cryomodules.
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-- Barry Barish
Director's Corner Archive |
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Call for Letters of Intent
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) announces a call for Letters of Intent (LOIs) to produce reference designs for the two ILC detectors. The guidelines for writing the LoIs can be found
here. The LOIs should be sent to the ILCSC by 1 October 2008.
ILC NewsLine survey
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Register for ALCPG07
It's not too late to register for the joint meeting of the American Linear Collider Physics Group and ILC Global Design Effort that will take place at Fermilab on 22-26 October.
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Questions wanted for dueling pianos
Submit your questions now for the "Dueling Pianos" session scheduled for the evening of 23 October during the ALCPG07 workshop at Fermilab.
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arXiv preprints
0710.1489
8 Oct 2007
Lepton Flavour Violating Effects on Chargino Production at the ILC
0710.0838
3 Oct 2007
Studying QCD factorizations in exclusive γ* γ* → ρ0L ρ0L
0710.0833
3 Oct 2007
Perturbative QCD in the Regge limit: Prospects at ILC
0710.0777
3 Oct 2007
Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC and Beyond
0710.0726
3 Oct 2007
Distinguishing SUSY scenarios using τ polarisation and  Dark Matter
EuroTeV 2006 Reports
2007-003
Effect of Altering the Cavity Shape in Infinitely Periodic Dipole Cavities
2007-004
Large Aperture Permanent Magnet Wiggler for the ILC Damping Rings
2007-006
Fast Luminosity Measurement and Beam Parameter Determination
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