Thirty new active calorimeter layers, two engineering prototypes and some ten PhD theses – and that’s only part of the expected harvest of the recent funding approval for detector R&D targeted also towards the ILC in Germany. The German research ministry will support the universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, Siegen and Wuppertal with 1.8 […]
Expert puts report into context
Satoru Yamashita is professor for particle physics at the University of Tokyo. He is also the chair of the ILC Strategy Council of Japan and as such acts as go-between, interpreter and commentator between worlds. He is familiar with the world of science ministries, in particular the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and […]
And Still They Will Collide
Is the beam delivery system delivering? Ten years ago, at the Global Design Effort’s formative meeting in Snowmass, Colorado, ILC communicator Perrine Royole-Degieux interviewed Phil Burrows, then professor at Queen Mary University of London, about the beam delivery system. How has the home straight where the particle bunches get squeezed, focused and brought to collision, […]
Calorimeters don’t take holidays
Summer breaks don’t exist for detector prototypes. For almost three weeks in July – around the time that a new temperature record of 39.7 degrees was measured in Geneva – the team working on the technological prototype of a potential hadronic calorimeter for the ILD detector at the ILC took data at the Super Proton […]
“Let’s get it straight”
The visual petition continues: scientists from DESY and the University of Hamburg recently gathered in the tunnel of the European XFEL to shoot this group #mylinearcollider video and a few others.
Survey reveals ILC-related hopes and fears of high school kids
If the ILC comes to Iwate prefecture, one of the major challenges will be to inform the local community about their big new science neighbour. The prefectural government and the councils of the host town have already set up up ILC task forces, and an expat grassroots support committee actively promotes the project in the […]
Building trust and big machines
The Japanese town Kesen-Numa has large expertise in the fishing and port industry, but they have never hosted a major international lab. A delegation recently visited CERN to learn how these labs work, what they need and what benefit they bring to their neighbours. Their visit included a trip to the site of the CMS […]
Crossing technical and cultural borders
EU project E-JADE fosters exchange between European and Japanese researchers
Oskar Hartbrich is a PhD student who specialises in developing state-of-the art calorimeters for future ILC detectors. He is also a specialist for full detectors simulations, and he has just spent nine weeks in Japan getting even deeper into this role, sitting side by side with other experts from Tokyo and Shinshu universities to further […]
CALICE under new leadership
CALICE, the collaboration of detector developers working on calorimeters for the linear collider, has a new spokesperson. At their meeting during the ALCW2015 workshop, the collaboration elected Frank Simon from the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany, as their new head. He takes over from Jose Repond, Argonne National Lab. The CALICE collaboration unites […]
InGrids on the rise
The InGrid chip is an ingenious little thing. It is essentially a Timepix chip equipped with 256×256 pixels. On top of these sits a grid that features a hole over each pixel. Within the 50-µm gap, a strong electric field is generated. This means that electrons flying through one of those holes feel this field and are […]