The LHC’s so-called Run 2 kicks off when first beam circulate in the 27-kilometre tunnel. After a period of getting to know the consolidated and improved LHC, the machine operators think they can deliver first collisions at 13 TeV to the LHC’s experiments in late May or early June. This is a 60% increase in […]
Linear collider technology checks LHC lumi
There’s a piece of linear collider detector technology that is getting ready to take real collision data. The linear collider may be at planning stage, but right in the middle of the CMS detector, a luminometer based on work done for the forward region of the ILC’s ILD detector is very much a working piece […]
Tech transfer from linear collider to LHC detector
The CMS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is very much a detector at work. It co-found the Higgs particle in 2012 and, although still in Lang-Shutdown-1 mode, it’s ready for the second LHC run. In it: a piece of linear collider technology. Stay tuned for the whole story in a future issue of LC […]
CLICing into action
CLIC is one of the potential follow-up projects to the LHC, alongside the International Linear Collider and the Future Circular Collider studies. Instead of smashing protons into protons, it would collide electrons with their antiparticles, the positrons. And instead of bending the particles around a ring, CLIC would be a 50-kilomtre-long straight line using a […]
2020 on the horizon
AIDA-2020 proposal selected – 10 million euros of funding for detector R&D
Good news for detector developers in Europe: the AIDA-2020 proposal to the European Commission has been selected to be funded as part of the Horizon 2020 programme. This means that future projects needing state-of-the-art particle detectors like the Large Hadron Collider upgrade and the linear collider will receive a total of ten million euros funding […]
A kimono for a laboratory
The mayor of Ichinoseki city, Osamu Katsube, and the whole city sent a special gift to CERN for its for its 60th birthday, which it celebrated in 2014: a red chanchanko set. It consists of a red vest, hat and folding fan. “‘Kanreki’ is one of the ancient traditions of celebrating longevity. It is held to celebrate the […]
Back to the future
Technology transfer between FCC and ILC
This tool offers a (very large) set of parameters and geological data such as soil composition, hydrography, environmental and sociological constraints and programmable risk factors data. You play with them – key in a tilt of, say, one percent or move points north or south or put the whole thing deeper underground – and the […]
Summer students reunite at test beam
Many physicists have extremely fond memories of their time as a summer student at labs like DESY in Germany or CERN in Switzerland. Some even describe it as pivotal because they decided to choose particle physics as their area of specialisation after being immersed in a real research environment, surrounded by people with the same […]
Green ILC: towards sustainable colliders
When planning a new research lab, an important step is to see how others have done similar things in the past and learn from their experiences. The ILC, with its many contributors from research labs all over the world, has this step firmly embedded in its planning procedure. But planning a new research lab also […]
Calorimeters enjoy beam time
There are prototypes and there are prototypes. Some are needed to verify that a chosen detection technology actually works, some help scientists test one technology against another, some help them design sturdy detector infrastructure with little material budget, working power supply and cooling, while others set out to prove that it is possible to have […]