18 August 2011
This summer 81 students of 19 different nationalities joined in the day-to-day work of research groups at the DESY Laboratory in Hamburg and Zeuthen (Berlin), participating in different activities. An introductory talk about the ILC is included in this year's programme.
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11 August 2011
How can a low-energy experiment like SLAC’s PEP II B Factory, originally built to investigate differences between matter and antimatter and no longer even taking data, compete with a monster matter masher like the LHC that was built, in a large part, to find the Higgs?
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EPS-HEP2011, Higgs boson, PEP II, SLAC
11 August 2011
The tunnel boring machine TULA (TUnnel for LAser) squeezed through a large hole in the wall of the injector building of the European XFEL facility. The hole, only 40 centimetres wider than the colossus that is TULA, made for a challengingly tight fit. TULA, which started 7 July 2010 at the European XFEL construction site in Schenefeld (Schleswig-Holstein), arrived a couple of days ago at the DESY site in Hamburg. In 13 months it has completed three tunnels with a total length of 3084 metres of the tunnel system, including the 2.1-kilometre-long linac tunnel. The second tunnel boring machine AMELI is still on its way to dig the (slightly thinner) rest of the nearly 6-kilometre long European XFEL tunnel system. TULA is 6.17 metres in diameter and 71 metres long, weighs 550 tonnes and costs 18 million Euros.
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4 August 2011
Image: George Joch Nearly 400 researchers gathered in Chicago last week for the SRF2011 conference.
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28 July 2011
During the 2011 Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (HEP 2011) press conference, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer ad libbed for the journalists an explanation of the role of the Higgs boson in the standard model of subatomic particles...with his two hands. "We know everything about the Higgs boson except whether it exists," he concluded. View more photos View videos from the conference.
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28 July 2011
Physicists could be on their way to discovering the Higgs boson, if it exists, by next year. Scientists in two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider pleasantly surprised attendees at the European Physical Society conference this afternoon by both showing small hints of what could be the prized particle in the same area.
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CDF, CERN, CMS, DZero, EPS-HEP2011, Fermilab, Higgs, Higgs boson, LHC
21 July 2011
The PCMAG – the magnet of the large prototype time projection chamber – will travel from DESY in Germany all the way to KEK in Japan. Before the magnet can begin its journey it must be properly wrapped and lifted out of the DESY test beam facility. Have a save trip PCMAG!
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14 July 2011
Awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the muon neutrino, Jack Steinberger recently celebrated his 90th birthday and can still be found in his CERN office on an almost daily basis. If you happened to have a coffee with him… this is what he would tell you: his recollections, and thoughts about the present and future of particle physics.
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CERN, LHC, Nobel prize, particle physics
14 July 2011
The opening ceremony of KEK's new Cavity Fabrication Facility (CFF). From left to right: Katsunobu Oide (Director, Accelerator Laboratory), Fumihiko Takasaki (Trustee), Atsuto Suzuki (Director General), Hideo Hirayama (Trustee), Kenji Ueno (Head, Mechanical Engineering Center).
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7 July 2011
I got involved in particle accelerators as a graduate student because I wanted to work in an area that had the potential to have a positive impact on people’s lives in 10 to 20 years. Near the end of my PhD studies, I attended a talk by Herman Winick, who introduced the audience to synchrotron radiation sources and the research going on at the SPEAR ring at what is now the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SSRL.
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