Scientists working in large international collaborations are used to travelling the world and seeing new places. But scientists travelling to Kitakami in northern Japan, the area where the ILC would likely get built if it is approved, tend to return with one prominent tale to tell: that of the support of the local public. ILC […]
Gearing up to final form
Technical design of Silicon-Tungsten ECAL of ILD reaches milestone
The SiW-ECAL is one of the designated detector technologies for the ILC’s planned ILD detector. (Read more about it here.) Sandwiched between the tracking detectors and the hadronic calorimeter, it would measure the energies of electrons and photons emerging from the collisions, and catch the first hadronic interactions Over the years and continuous improvement of prototypes, […]
Accelerated art
Visitors to the campus of the german research centre DESY were treated to very special creative collisions in the autumn. Fifteen artists from all across Germany had put heads together with dark-matter hunting scientists from DESY for the research centre’s first art-meets-science event ”Dark Matter”. Their works, ranging from a walk-in dark matter expe- rience, a […]
Pandora: opening the box for neutrino experiments
Pattern recognition rules in particle physics. When particles collide, many things happen at the same time and in a very fast sequence within fractions of a second. In order to tell everyday events from rare ones, particle physicists use pattern recognition software to quickly scan and classify pictures from the collisions. A software development kit […]
Let them collide!
ILC – The Point of Interaction (2016) from Rey.Hori on Vimeo. This animation, created by Rey.Hori, shows what happens when electrons and positrons collide in the ILD detector, one of the planned detectors for the future ILC. Many collisions will happen at the same time around the clock, producing a vast array of possible processes, […]
Calorimeter under telescope scrutiny
In the last years, the various prototypes for one of the possible future hadronic calorimeters – that part of a detector that measures the energy of all passing particles – have gone through a broad variety of tests in a variety of configurations. However, they have never before been tested in connection with a beam […]
See you, summer students
Summer is drawing to a close, and with it ends another season that often turns lab life on its head and has changed many people’s lives: summer student season. As the students from around the world finish off their projects, present their work to their fellow students and stock up on lab t-shirts, some leave […]
Gotta catch them all – and fast
It’s not the catchiest of titles – “Energy and time management with high-granularity silicon devices”. But the subject matter is rather catchy, both literally and figuratively: it’s not only about catching particles; it also caught on from one project to another. A recent workshop on silicon detector technology held during the first AIDA-2020 meeting in Hamburg […]
Tunnel visions for civil engineers
A delegation from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers including its president took to Europe last month to have a look at civil engineering project for large science facilities. They visited CERN and DESY to look at past and current building projects, which they would use as a reference in case ILC is constructed in […]
German particle physics community gives “strongest support” to ILC
It may feel like only yesterday that the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was adopted, but preparations for a new one, planned for 2018/19, are already underway. Germany has now published its first conclusions from a workshop on future electron-positron colliders that are very supportive of the ILC. The German community of […]