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The Higgs, Who Cares? More than 1200 people did in Arlington…

| 1 November 2012

…and for those who could not make it to the lecture “The Standard Model, Higgs Boson, Who cares?” by Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg at last week’s LCWS12 meeting, the organiser have put it on YouTube. Well, the closing sentence and the question-and-answer session are there – there were sound problems for the lecture itself. However, […]

ILC NewsLine to go on a biweekly schedule

| 1 November 2012

ILC NewsLine to go on a biweekly schedule From next week’s issue (8 November) until the start of the new linear collider organisation in February 2013, ILC NewsLine will be published once every two weeks. With the completion of the ILC’s Technical Design Report in full swing and preparations for the new organisation that unifies […]

Apply now for CLASHEP2013

| 1 November 2012

Apply now for CLASHEP2013 The 2013 CERN-Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics (CLASHEP2013) will be held in Arequipa, Peru, from 6 to 19 March 2013. The deadline for applications is 16 November 2012.

The great ILC flythrough: a trailer

| 25 October 2012

Coming soon to YouTube channels near you: a complete video tour of the ILC, based on all available CAD data. Road signs have been added for orientation, and a voiceover will explain what you see, and why it looks the way it does. Stay tuned!

Impressions from LCWS12

| 25 October 2012

Linear Collider Workshops have broken records in the past – not only in number of parallel sessions held, but also in visitor numbers for particle slams, for example. Wednesday saw another such record: 1200 people attended Steven Weinberg’s lecture at the University of Texas in Arlington, which was the public event for the LCWS12 workshop. […]

SLAC All Access: klystrons on YouTube

| 18 October 2012

SLAC’s YouTube channel has more on klystrons, and of course the legendary klystron gallery. In a video about SLAC’s Vacuum Microwave Device Department (VMDD), introduces itself as those people who build the devices that make SLAC’s particle accelerators go: klystrons. These devices generate intense waves of microwave energy that rocket subatomic particles up to nearly […]

Which way to the ILC, please?

| 18 October 2012

Drivers stuck in a traffic jam in Ichinoseki city are more likely to wonder about the mysteries of the Universe than about the latest Hollywood movie – at least if they take in the billboards at the side of the road. Japan’s Iwate prefecture in the Tohoku region in the north of the country boasts a […]