TILC08 beyond the agenda
Because of a storm over Europe that left their luggage stranded in Helsinki, these three had to buy new supplies. |
At the end of a productive working day, a long journey, a hard job or a rewarding week, Japanese people have a very useful phrase that expresses everything from gratitude and pride to exhaustion: Otsukare sama deshita, or simply otsukare. Even though not all participants of last week's TILC08 meeting may be aware of the expression, all are almost certainly aware of the 'otsukare' feeling after several days of intense and rewarding parallel and plenary sessions, splinter meetings and social interaction. Here are some impressions from the meeting that did not make it onto the official agenda.
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Upcoming meetings, conferences, workshops
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
XXII Symposium on Photonics and Electronics for Accelerators and High Energy Physics Experiments
Warsaw University of Technology Resort, WILGA
26 May - 1 June 2008
 GDE Meeting - ILC Conventional Facilities and Siting Workshop
JINR, Dubna, Russia
3-7 June 2008
ECFA 2008
Warsaw, Poland
9-12 June 2008
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GDE Meetings calendar
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Michel Davier chairs the International Detector Advisory Group
Michel Davier, physicist at LAL in Orsay, France, will chair the International Detector Advisory Group. |
Michel Davier, senior French physicist at LAL and Professor at University Paris-Sud 11, will chair the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) of the ILC project. “It is an honour for me to serve the ILC project, especially in this particularly interesting stage when the experimental landscape is being established,” says Davier. He has worked on electron-positron colliders for more than 30 years and he was LAL director for ten years in the eighties. Playing a leading role in particle physics in France, especially within the CELLO (DESY), ALEPH (CERN) and BaBar (SLAC) experiment collaborations, he is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences. In another aspect of his scientific career, he has been one of the leaders of the French-Italian Virgo project aiming at the detection of gravitational waves with a giant interferometer, thus sharing common scientific background with Global Design Effort Director Barry Barish, former director of the LIGO project in the US.
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From Today at Berkeley Lab
11 March 2008
Taking the Measure Of Electron Clouds
The Spallation Neutron Source, the Large Hadron Collider, and the proposed International Linear Collider all depend on accelerating positively charged particles like protons, heavy ions, or positrons to high energies and high currents.
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From Interactions.org
10 March 2008
From high school student to particle physicist in one day
The teachers work on real particle physics data, compare their results with colleagues from other countries and discuss with each other how to incorporate particle physics more thoroughly into their classes.
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From The Earth Science
7 March 2008
WMAP Reveals Neutrinos, End of Dark Ages, First Second of Universe
WMAP has found evidence for this so-called "cosmic neutrino background" from the early universe. Neutrinos made up a much larger part of the early universe than they do today.
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From Labnews.co.uk
6 March 2008
Dark matter could remain hidden
If dark matter however, is a twin phenomenon of dark energy, it will not show up at instruments like the LHC, but has been seen over and over again in galaxies by astronomers.
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The ILC Technical Design Phase begins at Sendai
Mr. Takeo Kawamura, member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) of Japan addressed the Sendai meeting about the importance of basic science projects like the ILC. |
Last week the Global Design Effort held a major collaboration meeting at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan attended by more than 200 participants from both the ILC detector and accelerator efforts. The past couple of months, in reaction to the negative funding actions in the US and UK, we have developed a new plan that maintains the highest-priority items in Technical Design Phase-1, lasting until 2010, while deferring completion of some of the longer-term items to 2012. Tohoku was a crucial time for us, as the meeting represents the first step in our new R&D plan towards the ILC. We focused this workshop on our short term goals with the highest priority in order to kick off the work in these areas as soon as possible. We believe this new highly prioritised programme will enable us to maintain our plan to be ready to propose ILC construction whenever the Large Hadron Collider results justify.
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-- Barry Barish
Director's Corner Archive |
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ILC Note
2008-041
Synchrotron Backgrounds for Laserwire Detector in Upstream Polarimeter Chicane
arXiv preprints
0803.0996
Production of Single Heavy Charged Leptons at a Linear Collider
0803.0887
Off resonance background effects in e+e- → t anti-t H
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