The discovery of superconductivity
This year marks the centenary of the discovery of superconductivity, the property that allows us to focus bunches and bend beams, opening the way to probe the most basic principles of the universe. Without it, there would be little talk of accelerating gradients, quality factors or large colliders. In this issue, we celebrate the weird […]
Look back on superconducting technology’s contribution to the International Linear Collider and particle physics in back issues of ILC NewsLine. 22 April 2010 Superconducting cavities could help reducing nuclear waste radio-toxicity 28 January 2010 Successful beginning of S1 global at KEK 26 February 2009 Past successes in superconducting RF are a good omen for the […]
Superconductivity discovered a hundred years ago
Geneva, 22 April 2011. Around midnight this night CERN’s Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 × 1032 cm-2s-1. This exceeds the previous world record of 4.024 × 1032 cm-2s-1, which was set by the US Fermi National […]
7 March 2011 CERN A spring clean for the LHC
AMS detector heads for International Space Station On 29 April 2011, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will take off for the International Space Station on board Space Shuttle Endeavour. ILC NewsLine will bring you more on this special event in a future issue. Read CERN’s press release. SRF2011 registration open SRF2011, the largest international conference on […]
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11 April 2011 Fermilab 10 Questions for a Particle Physicist