SiD detector concept meeting at SLAC
Graphic from an engineering study of SiD on beamline. (credit: Marco Oriunno, SLAC)
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The SiD detector concept collaboration met at SLAC from January 28 to 30. This meeting was planned last October at the ALCPG07 meeting at Fermilab, as part of the preparation for the Letter of Intent (LOI).
After the news about budget reductions, especially for ILC activities, in December last year in the UK and US, there was considerable discussion within SiD whether to have this meeting or not. In the end we decided to proceed as planned because the call for LOIs still exists and SiD wants to prepare an LOI.
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-- Harry Weerts and John Jaros |
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Upcoming meetings, conferences, workshops
 TILC08
Joint ACFA Physics and Detector Workshop and (GDE meeting) on International Linear Collider
Sendai
3-6 March 2008
Positron Source Meeting
DESY Zeuthen, Germany
7-9 April 2008
Energy Polarization Workshop
DESY Zeuthen, Germany
9-11 April 2008
SiD Workshop
RAL
14-16 April 2008
Workshop on High energy photon collisions at the LHC
CERN, Geneva
21-25 April 2008
LoopFest VII
Radiative Corrections for the LHC and ILC
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Amherst, New York, USA
14-16 May 2008
ICFA NANOBEAM Workshop (NANOBEAM-08)
Announcement
Budker INP, Novosibirsk, Russia
25-30 May 2008
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= Collaboration-wide Meetings
GDE Meetings calendar
View complete ILC calendar
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ICFA Statement on Funding for the Linear Collider
The ICFA chair greeted TILC08 participants via recorded video message. |
What do you do when you are director of a lab and chairman of a large international committee and have been invited to different events on different continents on the same day, assuming you don't have clones? You try to attend both -- at least virtually. Albrecht Wagner, DG of DESY in Hamburg and chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), gave an ICFA talk at the opening plenary of this week's TILC08 meeting that he had recorded earlier (Watch the video). He presented a statement agreed on by ICFA at their recent meeting at DESY:
The International Committee for Future Accelerators, ICFA, created to facilitate international
collaboration in the construction and use of accelerators for high energy physics, expresses its
deepest concern about the recent decisions in the United Kingdom and the United States of
America on spending for long-term international science projects.
The full text is available here.
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From BBC
4 March 2008
Deadline looms for science cuts
Physicists and astronomers have three weeks to make the case for a number of high-profile projects at risk of being cut from the UK's science portfolio.
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From AP
1 March 2008
Particle Collider's Last Big Piece Set
GENEVA (AP) – Engineers on Friday fitted the last major piece into what they say will be the world's largest scientific instrument — a nuclear particle accelerator in a 17-mile tunnel under the Swiss-French border.
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Science at Sendai
Hitoshi Murayama at the opening plenary session in Sendai. |
The ILC community has gathered at Sendai in Japan this week for the joint Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) Physics and Detector Workshop and Global Design Effort meeting. The opening session of the meeting was highlighted by a forward-looking science talk by Hitoshi Murayama, called "ILC, Future Particle Physics and Cosmology." Hitoshi pointed to a strong convergence between particle physics and cosmology and gave several arguments why in order to "understand physics at the largest scale of the universe, we need to understand the smallest scale: elementary particles." In the process, he motivated the future need and role of a linear collider by showing its complementarity to the LHC for TeV-scale physics, creating an analogy to the very successful multi-waveband approach used in astronomy and specifically by giving several illustrative examples from other fields of physics.
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-- Barry Barish
Director's Corner Archive |
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Konnichiwa !
View the photo album for a few impressions of the TILC08 meeting taking place this week in Sendai, Japan. Part two will follow in next week's issue.
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arXiv preprints
0802.4128
A test of the BFKL resummation at ILC
0802.4124
One-loop QCD corrections to the e+e- → W+W- b bbar process at the ILC
0802.4049
Virtual bilepton effects in polarized Moller scattering
0802.3943
Hidden particle production at the ILC
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