Image: DESY | 16 August 2012
The designated Linear Collider Director Lyn Evans, who will take up his new role when the ILC Technical Design Report has been officially delivered next summer, is already touring the labs. On Monday and Tuesday he visited DESY to inspect its cavity production facilities and chat to DESY scientists about the future.
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9 August 2012
The development of the superconducting 1.3-GHz radio-frequency test facility at NML, which would comprise three cryomodules and an electron beam to test them, suffered a setback earlier this year with the zeroing out of funds for the International Linear Collider. NML will continue to operate as a cryomodule test facility despite the zeroing out of ILC funds, explains Fermilab Director Pier Oddone in his 31-July Director's Corner.
19 July 2012
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee and the International Committee for Future Accelerators met recently in Melbourne in conjunction with ICHEP2012. ICFA chair and Fermilab Director Pier Oddone reports in his Director's Corner in the 17 July issue of Fermilab Today on the new organisation of the linear collider efforts, the timelines and responsibilities. There's also a call for nominees for the new Linear Collider Board.
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12 July 2012
Spain was recently host to two international physics and science encounters: the 40th International Meeting on Fundamental Physics and the Cantabria Campus Nobel. While one was pivotal for the Spanish high-energy physics landscape, the other offered a unique opportunity for scientists from all ages and backgrounds to exchange ideas.
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Image: DESY, Thies Rätzke | 12 July 2012
Brian Foster has many hobbies, including music and running the European part of the Global Design Effort as European Regional Director. He recently staged the German premiere of the musical piece "Particle Partitas", specially written by composer and physicist Edward Cowie and musician Jack Liebeck for an "unusual interaction of music and particle physics", in the DESY auditorium. This is one of a series of performance lectures by Brian Foster (on microphone and violin) and Jack Liebeck on the violin. They were joined this time by pianist Danny Driver.
5 July 2012
This is a small collection of interesting links to background information, facts, figures and international sites all about the Higgs. It makes no attempt to be comprehensive, but readers are encouraged to use the commenting function to add their favourite sites. From CERN: A big collection of background texts, videos and interviews Ten fun and little-known facts about the Higgs from symmetry magazine Peter Higgs in the spotlight: an exclusive interview by physics world Fermilab Higgs FAQs Fermilab video of Don Lincoln explaining the mechanism Higgs background information in German from www.weltmaschine.de Big questions in Japanese Higgs pages in French on lhc-france.fr/higgs Linear Collider Higgs talk at ICHEP Live blogging from ICHEP and an archive of blog posts from the CERN seminar on www.quantumdiaries.org And from our own ILC NewsLine: Scientific justification for the ILC Articulating the physics case for the ILC Is the Higgs enough? The impact of ILC detector R&D Higgs makes for exotic couples
Video: CERN | 5 July 2012
After all of this week's news, press releases, blog posts, backgrounders and newspaper stories here's more about the Higgs - catchy, rhythmic and full of clever lyrics. If you think you've still not grasped the Higgs mechanism this song will stick in your head! It's "The Particle Physicists' Song" (based on "The Hippopotamus Song" by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann), with lyrics by Danuta Orlowska, performed by the CERN choir in the CERN Control Room in 2010. Enjoy and pass the tune on to your colleagues...
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Image: CERN | 5 July 2012
Surrounded by cameras and showing a variety of emotions – delighted, touched, excited, shy, proud, almost overwhelmed – the central theorists, CERN management and the spokespeople of the experiments get together for a group picture after yesterday's press conference. Front row, left to right: theorist Francois Englert, theorist Peter Higgs, ATLAS spokeswoman Fabiola Gianotti, CERN director Steve Myers. Back row, left to right: CERN director Sergio Bertolucci, CERN DG Rolf Heuer, CMS spokesman Joe Incandela, theorist Carl Hagen, theorist Gerald Guralnik. Missing in the picture: Robert Brout and Tom Kibble and the rest of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.
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21 June 2012
In a 2009 video interview with the BBC, new Linear Collider Director Lyn Evans talks about how he, a miner's son from Wales, became project leader of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He says that "a random walk of life" brought him from Swansea to CERN, now another (not quite so random) walk of life has delivered a new challenge: uniting the linear collider efforts.
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21 June 2012
The International Committee on Future Accelerators (ICFA) has now taken the next significant step towards unification of the ILC Global Design Effort and the Compact Linear Collider organisation. It has appointed CERN's Lyn Evans to be the overall leader for the combined linear collider programmes. ICFA chair Pier Oddone comments.
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