While the linear collider community is working on the most viable technologies for the two linacs that will one day accelerate electron and positrons efficiently, more than 200 linear accelerators – linacs – are already in use at research institutions around the world. Nearly 500 representatives from both operating and planned linear accelerators are meeting […]
SCRF R&D for ILC upgrade – tin for the future?
Cornell experiments with Nb3Sn for cavities
Accelerator physicists are driven by one goal: to make particles go at high energies and in perfect beams at the highest efficiency and lowest cost possible. There are many different accelerator technology options for all sorts of particles, different types of colliders, storage rings and linacs, and different goals: medicine, light source, and, of course, […]
Some CLIC with your free-electron laser?
The CLIC study could transfer its X-band expertise to light sources and medical applications
The planned CLIC accelerator would use a unique way of accelerating its electrons and their anti-particles, positrons: two accelerators would sit side by side, one, the main linear accelerator or “linac”, to get the beams of particles from source to collision, and the other, the “drive beam”, to pass as much power as possible on […]
The Big ILC Kitakami Iwate Tohoku Glossary
Ichinoseki Ichinoseki would be one of the main hubs of ILC life. It’s a city with a major train station, hospitals, shopping centres, and nearly 130 000 inhabitants, spread over a rather large area – over 1200 square kilometres, which is nearly 10 times the size of Geneva (Switzerland). This is because it was merged […]
The road to Kitakami
Our mission was clear: we were the tasters, the vanguard. In early February, the two European LC communicators travelled to Japan for three days to a. find our way around the Japanese transport system, b. be filmed doing so, c. find entry points of improvement potential for foreigners about to make the same experience, and […]
Power napping for detectors
CLIC is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing
If physicists had it their way, detectors of the future would be powered with air. They want no material and no electronic noise to disturb their measurements. Powering by air isn’t a realistic option, so electrical engineers are tackling the challenge, putting a lot of effort into keeping noise down and material out. One of them […]
Running like an electron
Hundreds of children (as well as some playful adults) turned into human electrons at the ILC exhibit for the German accelerator lab DESY’s Open Day on 2 November. The group that normally takes care of linear collider technologies – cavity inspection, diagnostics, cavity treatments and the like – developed a mini particle accelerator for the […]
Stairway study
After publishing the physics and detector chapters for the CLIC Conceptual Design Report organised only through working groups on various different study topics and detector R&D projects, the CLIC physics and detector community has spent the last months putting a new organisation in place: the CLIC detector and physics study. So far, 19 institutes have […]
Tunnel vision
During the ECFA LC2013 workshop that took place a the end of May at DESY in Hamburg, the LC management, civil engineering and machine-detector interface experts visited the tunnel of the future European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser XFEL – a week before construction was officially finished. DESY and the European XFEL celebrated the completion of the […]
Setting the course for European particle physics
Strategy for particle physics adopted by CERN Council in Brussels
According to the paper, top priority is given to the continued operation of the LHC and its future upgrade for operation at higher luminosities, to ensure the exploitation of its full scientific potential. Other priorities for large-scale physics facilities are the development of a post-LHC accelerator project at CERN with global contribution, the European participation […]