Register now for LCWS12 Registration is open for the 2012 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS12) that will be hosted by the University of Texas at Arlington from 22 to 26 October. Book your room now or the Texas Rangers fans might snap them all up (and then book a ticket to the game). You […]
Research Director’s Report will appear next week
Research Director’s Report will appear next week The Research Director’s Report, usually a feature of the month’s third issue of ILC NewsLine, will be published in next week’s issue.
Spain holds the 40th “International Meeting on Fundamental Physics” and the “Cantabria Campus Nobel”
by Manuel Aguilar and Alberto Ruiz Jimeno
Spain held the 40th edition of the International Meeting on Fundamental Physics (IMFP 2012) in the Spanish Pyrenees from 24 May to 3 June. 140 researchers coming from international and Spanish research institutions gathered at the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual in Benasque. The centre owes its name to Pedro Pascual, a distinguished theoretical physicist who […]
Particle Partitas premiere in Germany
Feedback wanted for European Strategy document on linear collider
Feedback wanted for European Strategy document on linear collider Dear colleagues, We have received a close to final report from the working group that has been set up to prepare input from the Linear Collider community to the European Strategy process. This report have been through a first level of reviews and is now made […]
#Higgs on the web
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 […]
Singalong tutorial
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 […]
BlogLine
3 July 2012 Richard Ruiz What Comes Next? 2 July 2012 Aidan Randle-Conde Higgsdependence Day
A small part of the team that made it all happen
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 […]
From mining coal to colliding particles
Lyn Evans talks to the BBC about his life before the Linear Collider
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 […]