Image: DESY The optical inspection system OBACHT at DESY moved to a new lab roughly 25 metres below the surface in one of the former experimental halls of the HERA accelerator. Becoming good neighbours – OBACHT and HERA!
ICFA leaders discuss the ILC
CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, Fermilab Director Pier Oddone and KEK Director General Atsuto Suzuki discuss the state of high-energy physics at the Geneva Press Club’s press conference of the International Committee on Future Accelerators. The lab directors begin directly addressing the press at 6’44.
Workshop for the SiD Design Study
Registration is now open for the Workshop for the SiD Design Study, to be held at SLAC from 14-16 December 2011. Participants will review the current status of SiD detector R&D and the overall SiD design in preparation for the 2012 publication of the detailed baseline design. They will also discuss the CLIC Conceptual Design […]
From Fermilab Today: Staff and users celebrated the Tevatron’s last beam – Sept. 30
ILC squat team
Image: Nicholas Walker DESY’s Eckhard Elsen, Karsten Buesser and Klaus Sinram take a Segway tour of Granada, Spain, while assessing whether Segways would also be a suitable mode of transport for the ILC tunnel.
Impresiones from Granada
Images: Perrine Royole-Degieux, Jesús Díaz (computer series) and Monika Illenseer (vintage series) Linear collider researchers meet for five days this week in the grand Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos in Granada, Spain for the second International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders. Though a few local newspaper headlines would have readers believe that LCWS11 scientists debated […]
Announcements
François Richard gives public lecture in Granada, Spain On Tuesday, 27 September, François Richard of LAL, Orsay will give a public lecture ‘Viaje al centro de la materia’ (Journey to the heart of the matter) to Granada’s residents. In plain language, Richard will offer fresh insight into the mysteries of the universe and the future […]