New ILC cavity laboratory opens
Cavity experts always have one goal in mind: to reach a higher gradient for the superconducting accelerator structures – in serial production. The cavity production for the X-ray laser European XFEL runs at full speed. However, the precondition for industrial production of the cavities for the International Linear Collider is to reliably obtain the intended […]
Preparations for ALPS II are in full swing
Bending a HERA magnet straight may sound bizarre, but it is an important prerequisite for ALPS II. Last year, the “light shining through a wall” experiment ALPS at DESY in Germany did not find the lightweight particles it was looking for, but it did obtain the best exclusion limits worldwide for hidden light particles. Thus, […]
Two cavity tuning machines on their way to Fermilab
When groups from different countries work together the usual procedure is to send the people to the machines they are working on. A team of engineers and technicians from DESY, Fermilab and KEK decided to do the exact opposite: they sent the machines to the people. On 3 August two machines constructed at DESY embarked […]