There aren’t many people in the world who can say of themselves that they have walked the whole length of the ILC’s accelerator tunnels and stood in the detector cavern looking up at the ILC detector. In fact, there’s probably only one person in the world who has done all this: Benno List. He is […]
European community discusses the future of particle physics
LHC upgrades, linear colliders, muon colliders, neutrino experiments, even theory – the list of projects to discuss on the strategy list was long. The nearly 500 participants at CERN Council’s Open Symposium on European Strategy for Particle Physics did however manage to cover all of those and more. A briefing book will summarise the results […]
Physics that goes bang
Picture an auditorium full of schoolkids. When they walk in, they know nothing about superconducting radiofrequency acceleration (and who would blame them). When they walk out, they’re full of acceleration facts and have even been part of a radiofrequency wave that has accelerated an “electron” from one end of the auditorium to the other. How? […]
Quite attrack-tive
Tracks show the paths of particles passing through the time projection chamber, the tracker prototype for the ILD detector, in a DESY test beam last week. Six brand-new readout modules of the Micromegas type – one possible module type for the final detector – were mounted to the TPC endplate and produced beautiful tracks both […]
Make no assumptions
A linear collider would complete the picture
Collisions in the LHC are like fireworks. At energies no other particle collider has ever reached, protons smash into protons and produce such exciting particles as the Higgs boson. The catch: many, many things go on at these collisions, and filtering out the interesting ones is possible, but hard. What is more, LHC physicists can […]
The grand unifying 3-D chip
New platform for detector technology brings particle physics and photon science together
Detector specialists who have been watching and helping with the progress of the vertically integrated micro-electronics – 3-D ASIC chip for short – know that they are in for something big. Something big that’s rather small, incidentally, but that’s not the main point here – follow this link if you’d like to know more about […]
Special Higgs issue next week
Special Higgs issue next week With the start of the summer conferences and CERN’s announced Higgs update next Wednesday, the makers of ILC NewsLine join in the #Higgsteria and will publish a special Higgs issue next week. What do the results from the LHC mean for the next-generation collider? How can the linear collider help […]
The secret life of cavities – not so secret any more
Science photographer Heiner Müller-Elsner follows a cavity through all stages of production
Cavities will be the heartbeat of the ILC, accelerating electrons and positrons to very high energies so that they can collide in the centre of the detectors. The ILC’s core technology, superconducting radiofrequency technology or SCRF, is also used in other accelerators, for example FLASH at DESY of the future European XFEL. Because they are […]
If the particles won’t come to the detector…
Experts on detector, machine-detector interface and civil engineering agree on detector hall design
Sometimes big things have to move in the way of small things to find exciting things. The ILC detectors, for example. True to the scientific principle of reproducibility of results, two detectors, ILD and SiD, will one day record what happens when electrons and positrons collide so that one can verify (or not) what the […]
Crescendo for European infrastructures
Looking back on the first year of AIDA
Proposed projects rely heavily on active R&D activities, young people willing to spend weeks in test beams, industry willing to tackle new technological challenges and infrastructures that will in the end help turn a few of the proposed projects into reality. The EU-programme AIDA (for Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators) combines all these […]